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Crime Statistics

Answer

Data held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform for the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted for certain offences relating to operating unlicensed minicabs in England and Wales, 2003 to 2005, can be found in the following table. Other offences not related to the taxi legislation committed by unlicensed minicab drivers cannot be identified as the data is not collected at this level of detail.

Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for certain offences relating to operating unlicensed minicabs, in England and Wales, 2003 to 2005¹, ²
Number
		Prosecuted	Found guilty
Statute	Offence description	2003	2004	2005	2003	2004	2005
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 section 40-68 (except the offence of drunkenness under section 61 )	Offences peculiar to stage carriage and public service vehicles	337	292	283	270	248	233
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, section 167	Touting for hire car service without PSV operator’s licence	259	483	597	194	311	422
Total		596	75	880	464	559	655
¹ These data are on the principal offence basis.
² 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 large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
RDS Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

107007; 454 c640W;454 c642W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Crime Taxis

Link

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