Table 14: Means by which allegations were finalised in 2024/25


Police force	Outside of Schedule 3		Under Schedule 3 - not investigated		Under Schedule 3 - investigated		Total recorded
Police force	N	%	N	%	N	%
Avon & Somerset	1,998	36	2,994	54	574	10	5,566
Bedfordshire	1,209	64	532	28	142	8	1,883
British Transport	575	56	409	39	52	5	1,036
Cambridgeshire	1,064	55	712	37	155	8	1,931
Cheshire	715	26	1,905	70	110	4	2,730
City of London (with Action Fraud)	474	81	76	13	35	6	585
Cleveland	2,216	70	846	27	89	3	3,151
Cumbria	1,373	68	551	27	85	4	2,009
Derbyshire	1,172	27	2,925	66	320	7	4,417
Devon & Cornwall	428	24	1,284	71	106	6	1,818
Dorset	741	37	1,087	55	152	8	1,980
Durham	1,223	60	752	37	70	3	2,045
Dyfed-Powys	502	46	552	51	38	3	1,092
Essex	1,535	29	2,737	51	1,084	20	5,356
Gloucestershire	916	44	1,097	52	85	4	2,098
Greater Manchester	7,093	44	8,178	51	689	4	15,960
Gwent	627	50	389	31	230	18	1,246
Hampshire	3,932	83	729	15	90	2	4,751
Hertfordshire	1,487	54	981	36	281	10	2,749
Humberside	1,649	60	981	35	137	5	2,767
Kent	2,010	34	3,250	54	716	12	5,976
Lancashire	1,471	38	1,699	44	719	18	3,889
Leicestershire	520	17	2,325	75	261	8	3,106
Lincolnshire	334	15	1,711	79	123	6	2,168
Merseyside	2,131	75	514	18	198	7	2,843
Metropolitan	8,548	35	11,758	48	4,033	17	24,339
Norfolk	151	16	703	73	105	11	959
North Wales	349	33	558	52	158	15	1,065
North Yorkshire	706	45	558	35	322	20	1,586
Northamptonshire	1,051	49	780	37	303	14	2,134
Northumbria	2,746	62	255	6	1,463	33	4,464
Nottinghamshire	1,661	52	1,149	36	386	12	3,196
South Wales	744	14	4,089	75	612	11	5,445
South Yorkshire	1,101	41	1,447	54	113	4	2,661
Staffordshire	1,501	47	1,562	49	123	4	3,186
Suffolk	135	14	665	69	161	17	961
Surrey	2,139	49	1,991	46	238	5	4,368
Sussex	1,528	36	2,648	62	61	1	4,237
Thames Valley	2,353	45	435	8	2,461	47	5,249
Warwickshire	801	75	77	7	189	18	1,067
West Mercia	1,862	78	516	22	17	1	2,395
West Midlands	3,694	60	2,152	35	352	6	6,198
West Yorkshire	2,394	53	1,909	42	242	5	4,545
Wiltshire	1,120	54	769	37	192	9	2,081
Total	71,979	44	73,237	45	18,072	11	163,288