Home Department written question – answered at on 23 February 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many recorded instances of (a) rape and (b) domestic violence there were in each police force area in 2007-08; and what the clean-up rate for each crime was in each force in that year.
Information on the number of recorded offences of rape and the clear-up rate for these crimes in 2007-08 is given in the following table.
From the information collected centrally on recorded crime, it is not possible to identify recorded cases of domestic violence. Such offences are not specifically defined by law and details of the individual circumstances of offences are not collected.
Rape offences recorded by the police and detection rates by police force area—2007-08 | ||
Police force area | Number of rape offences | Detection rate (Percentage) |
Avon and Somerset | 383 | 25 |
Bedfordshire | 114 | 18 |
British Transport Police | 17 | 18 |
Cambridgeshire | 214 | 19 |
Cheshire | 149 | 31 |
Cleveland | 142 | 30 |
Cumbria | 81 | 25 |
Derbyshire | 235 | 28 |
Devon and Cornwall | 402 | 17 |
Dorset | 210 | 18 |
Durham | 128 | 43 |
Dyfed-Powys | 71 | 20 |
Essex | 296 | 19 |
Gloucestershire | 141 | 30 |
Greater Manchester | 784 | 38 |
Gwent | 177 | 20 |
Hampshire | 595 | 21 |
Hertfordshire | 172 | 22 |
Humberside | 259 | 22 |
Kent | 404 | 26 |
Lancashire | 258 | 30 |
Leicestershire | 343 | 12 |
Lincolnshire | 162 | 17 |
London, City of | 3 | 0 |
Merseyside | 250 | 22 |
Metropolitan police | 1,919 | 33 |
Norfolk | 141 | 21 |
Northamptonshire | 152 | 21 |
Northumbria | 255 | 29 |
North Wales | 153 | 17 |
North Yorkshire | 131 | 26 |
Nottinghamshire | 230 | 25 |
South Wales | 264 | 42 |
South Yorkshire | 235 | 34 |
Staffordshire | 243 | 21 |
Suffolk | 170 | 19 |
Surrey | 148 | 24 |
Sussex | 309 | 21 |
Thames Valley | 376 | 19 |
Warwickshire | 107 | 22 |
West Mercia | 241 | 22 |
West Midlands | 827 | 25 |
West Yorkshire | 626 | 24 |
Wiltshire | 137 | 23 |
England and Wales | 12,654 | 26 |
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