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<table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>The number of arrest warrants issued for defendants
who failed to attend court in England and Wales, by region, for the period 2010 to
2014 (the latest data available) can be viewed in the table below: <strong>Number
of Failure to Appear (FTA) Warrants received <sup>(1)</sup> by region in England and
Wales, 2010- 2014. </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region<sup>
(2)</sup></p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North
West</p></td><td><p>16,061</p></td><td><p>15,440</p></td><td><p>12,448</p></td><td><p>11,817</p></td><td><p>11,779</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>6,098</p></td><td><p>5,765</p></td><td><p>4,878</p></td><td><p>5,106</p></td><td><p>5,056</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humberside</p></td><td><p>11,973</p></td><td><p>10,480</p></td><td><p>9,420</p></td><td><p>8,271</p></td><td><p>7,851</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands <sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td><p>6,963</p></td><td><p>6,580</p></td><td><p>3,205</p></td><td><p>2,812</p></td><td><p>2,914</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands <sup>(4)</sup></p></td><td><p>6,213</p></td><td><p>5,930</p></td><td><p>5,518</p></td><td><p>5,457</p></td><td><p>5,858</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>8,999</p></td><td><p>8,267</p></td><td><p>6,876</p></td><td><p>5,638</p></td><td><p>5,284</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>10,825</p></td><td><p>10,674</p></td><td><p>9,257</p></td><td><p>9,304</p></td><td><p>9,716</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>13,146</p></td><td><p>12,407</p></td><td><p>9,942</p></td><td><p>10,752</p></td><td><p>11,107</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>7,732</p></td><td><p>7,617</p></td><td><p>5,874</p></td><td><p>5,851</p></td><td><p>6,010</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>5,463</p></td><td><p>5,628</p></td><td><p>5,401</p></td><td><p>5,217</p></td><td><p>4,441</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England & Wales</p></td><td><p>93,473</p></td><td><p>88,788</p></td><td><p>72,819</p></td><td><p>70,225</p></td><td><p>70,016</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td
colspan="8"><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> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>(2) Defined as comprising the following police
force areas: <strong>East of England</strong> - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk,
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex. <strong>East Midlands</strong> - Derbyshire,
Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire. <strong>London</strong>
- City of London, Metropolitan police. <strong>North East</strong> - Cleveland, Durham,
Northumbria. <strong>North West</strong> - Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire,
Greater Manchester. <strong>South East</strong> - Sussex, Thames Valley, Hampshire,
Surrey, Kent. <strong>South West</strong> - Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Avon
and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. <strong>Wales</strong> - Gwent, South Wales, Dyfed-Powys,
North Wales. <strong>West Midlands</strong> - West Midlands, Staffordshire, Warwickshire,
West Mercia. Yorkshire and Humberside - North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire,
Humberside. (3) West Midlands constabulary are unable to supply any FTA warrant data
from 1 April 2012. (4) 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. Procedures for supplying the Ministry of Justice with data relating to FTA
warrants have been revised to ensure that in future these data are captured. Data
presented are for the first three quarters of 2014 only. Note: 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.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>
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