A new study by the Ministry of Justice has revealed the number of registered sex offenders there are in each respective police force area of Britain
The number of registered sex offenders in the entire UK has surged by 98% in the past decade.
The Northumbria Police region has 2053, which amounts roughly to one out of every 600 people. The figure by Durham Constabulary is similar.
However comparatively, the North East’s proportion of sex offenders is effectively higher than every single region of England except Lancashire, which is number one.
Sex Offenders per Policing Area
- Teesside: 1,116
- Lancashire: 2,964
- County Durham: 1,007
- Humberside: 1,420
- North Wales: 1,023
- Greater Manchester: 4,114
- Merseyside: 2,034
- Northumbria: 2,053
- Gwent: 824
- West Yorkshire: 3,175
- South Wales: 1,778
- South Yorkshire: 1,806
- Cheshire: 1,424
- West Midlands: 3,657
- Norfolk: 1,184
- Nottinghamshire: 1,428
- Cumbria: 629
- West Mercia: 1,611
- Suffolk: 940
- Derbyshire: 1,282
- Hampshire: 2,349
- Sussex: 2,026
- Staffordshire: 1,312
- Northamptonshire: 905
- Dyfed-Powys: 604
- Lincolnshire: 886
- North Yorkshire: 946
- Devon and Cornwall: 2,023
- Cambridgeshire: 987
- Dorset: 857
- Kent: 1,953
- Warwickshire: 625
- Wiltshire: 762
- Gloucestershire: 668
- Avon and Somerset: 1,781
- Leicestershire: 1,122
- Essex: 1,848
- Thames Valley: 2,082
- Bedfordshire: 568
- London: 6,901
- Surrey: 858
- Hertfordshire: 816