FIGURES have been released showing the total number of fines issued by police forces in England between March 27 and May 11 for alleged breaches of the coronavirus lockdown laws.
It comes as police chiefs and prosecutors apologised after dozens of people were wrongly charged under new coronavirus laws.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) admitted all 44 charges brought under the Coronavirus Act between March 27 and the end of April were incorrect, including 13 wrongful convictions.
Here are the number of fines issued by each police force in England:
- Avon and Somerset: 300
- Bedfordshire: 292
- British Transport Police (BTP): 307
- Cambridgeshire: 120
- Cheshire: 166
- City of London: 64
- Cleveland: 280
- Cumbria: 269
- Derbyshire: 219
- Devon and Cornwall: 799
- Dorset: 383
- Durham: 137
- Essex: 165
- Gloucestershire: 238
- Greater Manchester: 263
- Hampshire: 244
- Hertfordshire: 243
- Humberside: 103
- Kent: 117
- Lancashire: 736
- Leicestershire: 334
- Lincolnshire: 194
- Merseyside: 438
- Metropolitan: 906
- MoD Police: 27
- Norfolk: 320
- North Yorkshire: 843
- Northamptonshire: 347
- Northumbria: 206
- Nottinghamshire: 158
- South Yorkshire: 356
- Staffordshire: 52
- Suffolk: 246
- Surrey: 539
- Sussex: 655
- Thames Valley: 866
- Warwickshire: 31
- West Mercia: 150
- West Midlands: 405
- West Yorkshire: 758
- Wiltshire: 169
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