POLICE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS 2005/06

FORCE POINTS RANK

Staffordshire 18 1

Northumbria 17 2

City of London 14 =3

Dorset 14 =3

Dyfed-Powys 14 =3

Hertfordshire 14 =3

Lancashire 14 =3

Leicestershire 14 =3

North Wales 14 =3

Surrey 14 =3

West Yorkshire 14 =3

Durham 13 =12

North Yorkshire 13 =12

Thames Valley 13 =12

West Mercia 13 =12

Avon and Somerset 12 =16

Essex 12 =16

Hampshire 12 =16

Merseyside 12 =16

Metropolitan Police 12 =16

South Yorkshire 12 =16

Sussex 12 =16

West Midlands 12 =16

Cumbria 11 =24

Devon and Cornwall 11 =24

Kent 11 =24

Cambridgeshire 10 =27

Derbyshire 10 =27

Gloucestershire 10 =27

South Wales 10 =27

Suffolk 10 =27

Wiltshire 10 =27

Greater Manchester 9 =33

Gwent 9 =33

Norfolk 9 =33

Cheshire 8 36

Bedfordshire 7 =37

Cleveland 7 =37

Warwickshire 7 =37

Lincolnshire 5 40

Nottinghamshire 4 41

Humberside 3 =42

Northamptonshire 3 =42

Here I go... even more cynical.

All those 'key performance areas' could be describing the use of speed cameras.

They could be....i found out today in the kent force only, out of 417 speeding offence carried out by kent plod cars only 1 resulted in a court case/conviction/points. now whilst i will agree that some of the 417 offences were recorded whilst vehicle was on a blue light....find it very hard to belive that 416 were recored whilst attending a 999 call....i smell a cover up here me thinks