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 "title": "CPS conviction rate by police force area, England and Wales",
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 "summary": "The share of defendants the Crown Prosecution Service prosecuted who were convicted, over the latest four quarters, by the police force that brought each case, from the CPS's Area level data tables.",
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  "The CPS publishes these figures as operational management information from its case management system, not as official statistics, and counts defendants rather than cases. CPS Areas are the CPS's own: their names are not the ONS's regions, even where they share one.",
  "The CPS gives each rate as a fraction, which the hub shows as a percentage. A conviction is a guilty plea, a conviction after trial or a proof in absence."
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     "x": "West Midlands",
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     "x": "TOTAL",
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