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<p>The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants who failed to attend court
in England and Wales for the period 2010 to 2014, the latest data available, can be
viewed in the table below.</p><p><strong>Number of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants
received<sup> (1)</sup> in England and Wales, 2010- 2014.</strong></p><p><strong>
</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total warrants issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>93,473</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>88,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012<sup>
(2)</sup></p></td><td><p>72,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>70,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014<sup>
(3)</sup></p></td><td><p>70,016</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>
</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>(1) Every effort is made to ensure that the
figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that
these data have been extracted from live systems used by police forces principally
for operational reasons. As such, they are subject to change over time. For these
reasons, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable
limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2)
West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data from 1 April
2012.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(3) Lincolnshire Police were unable to supply any data
for Q4 of 2014 because of technical issues related to the introduction of a new warrant
management system. Data presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong><ul><li>These data are reported to
the Ministry of Justice by police forces. As such, they are not directly comparable
with other data presented in the Criminal Statistics bulletin, which are returned
directly from administrative data systems used by magistrates' courts and the Crown
Court.</li></ul></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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