VAWG prosecutions by police force areas 2015-2016 Convictions Unsuccessful Volume % Volume % Total Avon & Somerset 2,232 73.8% 794 26.2% 3,026 Bedfordshire 747 73.5% 270 26.5% 1,017 British Transport Police 381 81.4% 87 18.6% 468 Cambridgeshire 1,031 78.0% 290 22.0% 1,321 Cheshire 2,006 80.3% 491 19.7% 2,497 Clevel<strong>and</strong> 1,150 75.1% 382 24.9% 1,532 Cumbria 731 83.0% 150 17.0% 881 Derbyshire 1,867 78.6% 507 21.4% 2,374 Devon & Cornwall 1,904 74.4% 655 25.6% 2,559 Dorset 1,004 76.7% 305 23.3% 1,309 Durham 1,225 76.6% 375 23.4% 1,600 Dyfed-Powys 636 73.4% 231 26.6% 867 Essex 2,593 74.0% 910 26.0% 3,503 Gloucestershire 653 72.6% 247 27.4% 900 Greater Manchester 6,558 79.7% 1,675 20.3% 8,233 Gwent 1,012 76.9% 304 23.1% 1,316 Hampshire 2,219 76.1% 696 23.9% 2,915 Hertfordshire 1,349 73.4% 489 26.6% 1,838 Humberside 1,312 83.4% 262 16.6% 1,574 Kent 2,139 74.6% 727 25.4% 2,866 Lancashire 3,032 76.7% 920 23.3% 3,952 Leicestershire 1,100 75.4% 359 24.6% 1,459 Lincolnshire 1,047 80.7% 251 19.3% 1,298 London Police 11,092 64.9% 5,997 35.1% 17,089 Mersey <strong>and</strong> Cheshire 3,350 80.1% 832 19.9% 4,182 Norfolk 1,414 75.7% 453 24.3% 1,867 North Wales 1,223 77.4% 357 22.6% 1,580 North Yorkshire 838 80.4% 204 19.6% 1,042 Northamptonshire 980 72.0% 382 28.0% 1,362 Northumbria 2,741 70.5% 1,145 29.5% 3,886 Nottinghamshire 2,084 74.8% 701 25.2% 2,785 South Wales 2,883 74.5% 985 25.5% 3,868 South Yorkshire 1,964 74.3% 678 25.7% 2,642 Staffordshire 1,588 74.9% 533 25.1% 2,121 Suffolk 960 81.0% 225 19.0% 1,185 Surrey 1,088 73.5% 392 26.5% 1,480 Sussex 1,814 72.8% 678 27.2% 2,492 Thames Valley 2,744 70.8% 1,133 29.2% 3,877 Warwickshire 622 79.5% 160 20.5% 782 West Mercia 1,762 76.8% 533 23.2% 2,295 West Midl<strong>and</strong>s 4,685 71.6% 1,856 28.4% 6,541 West Yorkshire 4,611 75.6% 1,485 24.4% 6,096 Wiltshire 898 82.8% 187 17.2% 1,085 Total 87,269 74.2% 30,293 25.8% 117,562 94
DA prosecutions by CPS Area: 2015-2016 Convictions Unsuccessful Total Volume % Volume % Cymru Wales 5,087 76.3% 1,577 23.7% 6,664 Eastern 5,243 76.6% 1,600 23.4% 6,843 East Midl<strong>and</strong>s 6,204 76.2% 1,938 23.8% 8,142 London 9,400 64.5% 5,179 35.5% 14,579 Merseyside & Cheshire 4,771 80.9% 1,125 19.1% 5,896 North East 4,510 73.3% 1,643 26.7% 6,153 North West 9,070 79.6% 2,319 20.4% 11,389 South East 4,234 74.7% 1,436 25.3% 5,670 South West 4,024 73.5% 1,450 26.5% 5,474 Thames <strong>and</strong> Chiltern 4,154 72.3% 1,592 27.7% 5,746 Wessex 3,465 78.4% 956 21.6% 4,421 West Midl<strong>and</strong>s 7,515 73.9% 2,659 26.1% 10,174 Yorkshire & Humberside 7,558 77.3% 2,221 22.7% 9,779 Total 75,235 74.5% 25,695 25.5% 100,930 95
- Page 2 and 3:
Violence against Women and Girls Cr
- Page 4 and 5:
This report also includes informati
- Page 6 and 7:
Data cannot be correlated between t
- Page 8 and 9:
Stalking and harassment 9 Prosecu
- Page 10 and 11:
Sexual offences (excluding rape) 13
- Page 12 and 13:
Child abuse The volume of child a
- Page 14 and 15:
The CPS, police and judiciary joint
- Page 16 and 17:
Forced marriage, honour based viole
- Page 18 and 19:
Stalking, harassment, sexual offenc
- Page 20 and 21:
Violence against Women and Girls VA
- Page 22 and 23:
analysis are provided for Areas, fo
- Page 24 and 25:
Grooming and social media A Police
- Page 26 and 27:
Graph 2: VAWG caseload as % of tota
- Page 28 and 29:
Area performance The tables on page
- Page 30 and 31:
Domestic Abuse On 30 December 2015,
- Page 32 and 33:
Graph 7: DA prosecution and convict
- Page 34 and 35:
The underlying data is provided in
- Page 36 and 37:
Controlling and coercive behaviour
- Page 38 and 39:
Transforming Summary Justice Transf
- Page 40 and 41:
Domestic homicide: A man was foun
- Page 42 and 43:
Table 2a: Harassment and stalking o
- Page 44 and 45:
Stalking and harassment The CPS per
- Page 46 and 47: Stalking - post relationship-breakd
- Page 48 and 49: Rape In 2015-16 there was a rise in
- Page 50 and 51: In 2015-16 88 the number of prosecu
- Page 52 and 53: acquittals account for the majority
- Page 54 and 55: Local good practice CPS North
- Page 56 and 57: Consent Police, prosecutors, in-hou
- Page 58 and 59: The guidance is designed to improve
- Page 60 and 61: Unduly lenient sentence A 'stranger
- Page 62 and 63: Heads of RASSO Units cascaded the t
- Page 64 and 65: Table 5: Completed sexual offence p
- Page 66 and 67: Age From those defendants where age
- Page 68 and 69: Forced marriage, honour based viole
- Page 70 and 71: Honour based violence The data belo
- Page 72 and 73: Female Genital Mutilation The CPS p
- Page 74 and 75: Child abuse All cases of child abus
- Page 76 and 77: Victim data 127 , from the Witness
- Page 78 and 79: National Child Sexual Abuse Review
- Page 80 and 81: Local partnership working In C
- Page 82 and 83: Table 9: Completed human traffickin
- Page 84 and 85: Sexual trafficking The defendant wa
- Page 86 and 87: Forced labour A factory owner who e
- Page 88 and 89: TOTAL 114 197 140 97 55 99 111 C Ke
- Page 90 and 91: Pornography and obscenity In 2015-1
- Page 92 and 93: Communications Act 2003 (127 (2)(a)
- Page 94 and 95: As outlined in the child abuse sect
- Page 98 and 99: DA prosecutions by police force are
- Page 100 and 101: Rape prosecutions by police force a
- Page 102 and 103: Sexual offence prosecutions by poli
- Page 104 and 105: without violence, compared with 6,6
- Page 106 and 107: England and Wales, with a convictio
- Page 108 and 109: this is not an exhaustive list and
- Page 110 and 111: Homicide: Offences against the pers
- Page 112 and 113: Reasons for unsuccessful outcomes A
- Page 114: Glossary of acronyms BME Black and