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Crime: Nature Conservation

Answer

The number of defendants found guilty at all courts for wildlife related offences, by police force area in England and Wales, 2009 (latest available) is shown in the following table.Court proceedings data for 2010 are planned for publication on 26 May 2011.

Number of defendants found guilty at all courts for wildlife related offences, by police force area 2009¹,²,³
Police force area	Wildlife and Countryside Act 19814	Protection of Badgers Act 1992	Deer Act 1991	Control of Trade in Endangered (Enforcement) Species Regulation 1997	Conservation of Seals Act 1970	Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996
Avon and Somerset	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bedfordshire	—	—	—	—	—	1
Cambridgeshire	1	—	—	—	—	—
Cheshire	2	5	—	1	—	—
City of London	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cleveland	—	—	—	—	—	—
Cumbria	2	—	—	—	—	—
Derbyshire	—	—	—	—	—	—
Devon and Cornwall	3	2	1	—	—	—
Dorset	1	—	—	—	—	—
Durham	—	—	—	—	—	—
Essex	1	1	—	—	7	—
Gloucestershire	—	1	—	—	—	—
Greater Manchester	1	—	—	—	1	—
Hampshire	—	1	—	—	—	—
Hertfordshire	—	1	—	—	—	—
Humberside	—	—	—	—	—	—
Kent	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lancashire	—	1	—	—	—	—
Leicestershire	2	—	—	—	—	—
Lincolnshire	1	—		—	—	1
Merseyside	1	1	—	—	—	1
Metropolitan Police	2	—	—	—	—	—
Norfolk	—	—	—	—	—	—
North Yorkshire	2	—	—	—	—	—
Northamptonshire	—	—	—	—	—	—
Northumbria	2	—	—	—	4	—
Nottinghamshire	1	2	—	—	—	—
South Yorkshire	1	—	—	—	—	—
Staffordshire	—	—	—	—	—	—
Suffolk	1	3	1	—	—	—
Surrey	—	—	—	1	1	—
Sussex	—	—	—	—	—	1
Thames Valley	1	—	—	—	—	—
Warwickshire	—	—	—	—	—	—
West Mercia	2	2	—	1	—	—
West Midlands	—	1	—	—	—	1
West Yorkshire	3	—	—	—	1	—
Wiltshire	—	—	—	—	—	—
Dyfed-Powys	1	—	—	—	—	—
Gwent	1	—	—	—	—	—
North Wales	1	1	—	—	—	—
South Wales	—	8	—	—	1	—
England and Wales	33	30	2	3	15	5
¹ The figures given in the table on court proceedings relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
² Every effort is made to ensure (hat the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
³ Only those forces are shown where data have been reported.
4 Excludes offence ““Protection of wild plants”” as it forms part of a miscellaneous code which cannot be identified separately.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services—Ministry of Justice.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

53497; 527 c795-8W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Crime Nature conservation

Contains statistics

Yes

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