Just one third of rural residents think police are doing a good job

Here is the number of offences recorded by each police force in England and Wales in 2017, together with the percentage change on 2016.

The forces are listed alphabetically. The figures do not include fraud offences.

Avon and Somerset 139,644 (up 4%)

Bedfordshire 46,059 (up 9%)

British Transport Police 57,581 (up 15%)

Cambridgeshire 66,364 (up 22%)

Cheshire 82,443 (up 36%)

City of London 5,338 (down 1%)

Cleveland 55,329 (up 9%)

Cumbria 27,046 (up 6%)

Derbyshire 55,641 (up 5%)

Devon and Cornwall 100,637 (up 23%)

Dorset 48,717 (up 11%)

Durham 60,541 (up 40%)

Dyfed-Powys 25,114 (up 10%)

Essex 130,757 (up 11%)

Gloucestershire 34,261 (up 15%)

Greater Manchester 335,488 (up 37%)

Gwent 46,903 (up 19%)

Hampshire 160,808 (up 12%)

Hertfordshire 81,958 (up 16%)

Humberside 85,518 (up 15%)

Kent 167,340 (up 33%)

Lancashire 120,212 (up 15%)

Leicestershire 79,250 (up 21%)

Lincolnshire 40,597 (up 10%)

Merseyside 122,165 (up 14%)

Metropolitan Police 809,049 (up 7%)

Norfolk 55,643 (up 14%)

North Wales 48,022 (up 18%)

North Yorkshire 38,478 (up 5%)

Northamptonshire 55,047 (up 4%)

Northumbria 149,023 (up 26%)

Nottinghamshire 93,800 (up 24%)

South Wales 105,667 (up 9%)

South Yorkshire 144,980 (up 30%)

Staffordshire 83,747 (up 11%)

Suffolk 52,524 (up 19%)

Surrey 72,897 (up 20%)

Sussex 113,079 (up 11%)

Thames Valley 148,173 (up 10%)

Warwickshire 41,804 (up 18%)

West Mercia 85,790 (up 9%)

West Midlands 227,865 (up 13%)

West Yorkshire 260,024 (up 13%)

Wiltshire 44,043 (up 8%)



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