Table 15: Time taken to finalise allegations in 2024/25
| Police force | Average number of days to finalise allegations outside of Schedule 3 | Average number of days to finalise allegations - not investigated under Schedule 3 | Average number of days to finalise allegations - by local investigation under Schedule 3 |
| Avon & Somerset | 14 | 84 | 188 |
| Bedfordshire | 50 | 83 | 196 |
| British Transport | 9 | 24 | 317 |
| Cambridgeshire | 30 | 66 | 160 |
| Cheshire | 21 | 63 | 202 |
| City of London (with Action Fraud) | 111 | 89 | 147 |
| Cleveland | 15 | 124 | 365 |
| Cumbria | 19 | 97 | 179 |
| Derbyshire | 14 | 73 | 137 |
| Devon & Cornwall | 134 | 170 | 253 |
| Dorset | 44 | 88 | 169 |
| Durham | 9 | 240 | 351 |
| Dyfed-Powys | 13 | 100 | 229 |
| Essex | 18 | 89 | 150 |
| Gloucestershire | 82 | 230 | 248 |
| Greater Manchester | 7 | 92 | 277 |
| Gwent | 54 | 180 | 249 |
| Hampshire | 14 | 87 | 212 |
| Hertfordshire | 7 | 82 | 178 |
| Humberside | 7 | 67 | 104 |
| Kent | 19 | 75 | 197 |
| Lancashire | 4 | 308 | 315 |
| Leicestershire | 9 | 48 | 158 |
| Lincolnshire | 9 | 60 | 137 |
| Merseyside | 28 | 132 | 195 |
| Metropolitan | 9 | 146 | 248 |
| Norfolk | 35 | 145 | 368 |
| North Wales | 10 | 61 | 207 |
| North Yorkshire | 124 | 182 | 187 |
| Northamptonshire | 8 | 145 | 179 |
| Northumbria | 36 | 137 | 183 |
| Nottinghamshire | 29 | 92 | 219 |
| South Wales | 11 | 103 | 236 |
| South Yorkshire | 31 | 80 | 265 |
| Staffordshire | 13 | 103 | 255 |
| Suffolk | 46 | 118 | 233 |
| Surrey | 15 | 130 | 303 |
| Sussex | 26 | 57 | 127 |
| Thames Valley | 5 | 191 | 206 |
| Warwickshire | 32 | 49 | 144 |
| West Mercia | 21 | 162 | 289 |
| West Midlands | 27 | 89 | 322 |
| West Yorkshire | 6 | 74 | 140 |
| Wiltshire | 51 | 121 | 376 |
| Total | 20 | 109 | 220 |
Only allegations with valid dates are used in the calculation for the average number of days to finalise allegations.