Table 14: Means by which allegations were finalised in 2025/26

Police force	Outside of Schedule 3		Under Schedule 3 - not investigated		Under Schedule 3 - investigated		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Avon and Somerset	2,034	33	3,733	60	458	7	6,225
Bedfordshire	1,052	49	882	41	235	11	2,169
British Transport	506	48	487	46	67	6	1,060
Cambridgeshire	842	44	864	45	222	12	1,928
Cheshire	1,222	40	1,797	58	55	2	3,074
City of London	151	44	181	52	13	4	345
Cleveland	2,103	68	958	31	47	2	3,108
Cumbria	1,373	74	426	23	56	3	1,855
Derbyshire	861	21	2,962	74	182	5	4,005
Devon and Cornwall	2,431	45	2,688	50	233	4	5,352
Dorset	859	30	1,843	65	145	5	2,847
Durham	1,249	51	1,141	46	65	3	2,455
Dyfed-Powys	591	44	690	51	59	4	1,340
Essex	1,862	30	3,031	49	1,299	21	6,192
Gloucestershire	1,048	52	938	46	46	2	2,032
Greater Manchester	9,265	51	8,068	44	855	5	18,188
Gwent	489	53	385	42	45	5	919
Hampshire	4,878	80	1,106	18	145	2	6,129
Hertfordshire	1,535	52	1,079	37	320	11	2,934
Humberside	1,399	39	2,059	58	105	3	3,563
Kent	1,913	27	4,425	64	621	9	6,959
Lancashire	1,992	50	1,447	37	509	13	3,948
Leicestershire	512	15	2,574	77	236	7	3,322
Lincolnshire	387	14	2,241	83	74	3	2,702
Merseyside	2,629	71	881	24	210	6	3,720
Metropolitan	8,842	36	13,109	53	2,615	11	24,566
Norfolk	240	20	795	65	181	15	1,216
North Wales	359	29	734	60	128	10	1,221
North Yorkshire	1,320	69	431	22	165	9	1,916
Northamptonshire	1,486	57	813	31	287	11	2,586
Northumbria	3,969	60	308	5	2,385	36	6,662
Nottinghamshire	1,926	53	1,361	37	346	10	3,633
Report Fraud	271	78	75	22	0	0	346
South Wales	1,161	21	3,733	69	514	10	5,408
South Yorkshire	1,225	28	3,000	68	181	4	4,406
Staffordshire	1,484	51	1,284	44	140	5	2,908
Suffolk	200	19	666	64	179	17	1,045
Surrey	2,053	43	2,591	54	180	4	4,824
Sussex	2,022	46	2,263	51	153	3	4,438
Thames Valley	3,069	47	1,302	20	2,189	33	6,560
Warwickshire	718	72	174	17	107	11	999
West Mercia	1,763	79	439	20	30	1	2,232
West Midlands	3,319	54	2,317	38	528	9	6,164
West Yorkshire	2,913	55	2,143	41	209	4	5,265
Wiltshire	1,090	48	935	42	223	10	2,248
Total	82,613	45	85,359	46	17,042	9	185,014