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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.",
  "A prosecution is a defendant's case finalised in the magistrates' courts or the Crown Court; a conviction is a guilty plea, a conviction after trial or a proof in absence. The British Transport Police are listed as a force. The forces' total leaves out the Central Casework Divisions' cases, so it is smaller than the CPS's national figure."
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    },
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     "x": "Derbyshire",
     "v": 9031.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Norfolk",
     "v": 8011.0
    },
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     "x": "Leicestershire",
     "v": 7930.0
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     "x": "Cleveland",
     "v": 7545.0
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     "x": "Surrey",
     "v": 7317.0
    },
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     "x": "North Wales",
     "v": 7105.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Hertfordshire",
     "v": 6594.0
    },
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     "x": "British Transport Police",
     "v": 6009.0
    },
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     "v": 5910.0
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     "v": 5898.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Northamptonshire",
     "v": 5889.0
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     "x": "Suffolk",
     "v": 5592.0
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     "x": "Lincolnshire",
     "v": 5372.0
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     "x": "Cumbria",
     "v": 5312.0
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    {
     "x": "Cambridgeshire",
     "v": 5250.0
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     "x": "Dorset",
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     "x": "Gwent",
     "v": 4565.0
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     "x": "Bedfordshire",
     "v": 4407.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Wiltshire",
     "v": 3988.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Dyfed-Powys",
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    {
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     "v": 3381.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Gloucestershire",
     "v": 3288.0
    },
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     "x": "City of London Police",
     "v": 1546.0
    },
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     "x": "TOTAL",
     "v": 486661.0
    }
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   "name": "Convictions",
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     "x": "Metropolitan Police",
     "v": 52484.0
    },
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     "v": 23622.0
    },
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     "x": "West Yorkshire",
     "v": 19549.0
    },
    {
     "x": "West Midlands",
     "v": 17395.0
    },
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     "x": "Merseyside",
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    },
    {
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     "v": 12910.0
    },
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     "x": "Thames Valley",
     "v": 12412.0
    },
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     "x": "South Wales",
     "v": 12340.0
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    },
    {
     "x": "Northumbria",
     "v": 11475.0
    },
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     "x": "Essex",
     "v": 11329.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Hampshire",
     "v": 11292.0
    },
    {
     "x": "South Yorkshire",
     "v": 9895.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Cheshire",
     "v": 9602.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Avon & Somerset",
     "v": 9168.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Nottinghamshire",
     "v": 9277.0
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     "x": "Sussex",
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    },
    {
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     "v": 7713.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Devon & Cornwall",
     "v": 8566.0
    },
    {
     "x": "West Mercia",
     "v": 7633.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Humberside",
     "v": 7563.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Derbyshire",
     "v": 7545.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Norfolk",
     "v": 6758.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Leicestershire",
     "v": 6522.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Cleveland",
     "v": 6373.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Surrey",
     "v": 5987.0
    },
    {
     "x": "North Wales",
     "v": 6154.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Hertfordshire",
     "v": 5341.0
    },
    {
     "x": "British Transport Police",
     "v": 4758.0
    },
    {
     "x": "North Yorkshire",
     "v": 4921.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Durham",
     "v": 4960.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Northamptonshire",
     "v": 4962.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Suffolk",
     "v": 4735.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Lincolnshire",
     "v": 4647.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Cumbria",
     "v": 4575.0
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    {
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     "v": 4443.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Dorset",
     "v": 4393.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Gwent",
     "v": 3721.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Bedfordshire",
     "v": 3466.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Wiltshire",
     "v": 3331.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Dyfed-Powys",
     "v": 2929.0
    },
    {
     "x": "Warwickshire",
     "v": 2589.0
    },
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     "x": "Gloucestershire",
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