Kookiethebird

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About me

I do a huge amount more reading on Wikipedia than editing. I tend to find that I only have anything much to contribute to articles with low or relatively low numbers of page views. I really don't have a whole lot to add to articles such as the Standard Model or photon.

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If anyone ever wishes to contact me privately, you can do so by emailing Kookiethebird@hotmail.com. If you don't want to risk waiting months for a response though you should notify me via my Talk page.

Tables

I'm a big fan of tables as I feel that numbers can be much more useful than words in understanding how an organisation is doing. For example, a police force might be described as "good", or it might be broken down into parts with descriptions of "excellent", "good", "fair" or "poor", but that doesn't tell me much, whereas detection rates tells me a lot more.

These are some of the tables that I've created.

Road casualties in London

The following table shows the number of casualties, grouped by severity, on the roads of Greater London (including the City of London), over the past four years.

	2008	2009	2010	2011
Fatal	204	184	126	159
Serious	3,322	3,043	2,760	2,646
Slight	24,627	24,752	26,003	26,452
Total	28,361	27,979	28,889	29,257

Road casualties in Surrey

The following table shows the number of casualties, grouped by severity, on Surrey's roads over the past three years.

	2008	2009	2010
Fatal	45	41	32
Serious	483	530	488
Slight	5,411	5,184	4,811
Total	5,939	5,755	5,331

Road casualties in Sussex

The following table shows the combined total figures for the number of casualties on the roads of East and West Sussex for the most recent three years for which data is available.

	2008	2009	2010
Fatal	73	61	48
Serious	810	763	644
Slight	4,159	3,974	3,487
Total	5,042	4,798	4,179

Detection rates

The following table shows the percentage detection rates for the Metropolitan Police by offence group for 2010/11.

	Total	Violence against the person	Sexual offences	Robbery	Burglary	Offences against vehicles	Other theft offences	Fraud and forgery	Criminal damage	Drug offences	Other offences
Metropolitan Police	24	35	23	17	11	5	14	16	13	91	63
England and Wales	28	44	30	21	13	11	22	24	14	94	69

Detection rates by offence group, percentages

	Total	Violence against the person	Sexual offences	Robbery	Burglary	Offences against vehicles	Other theft offences	Fraud and forgery	Criminal damage	Drug offences	Other offences
Surrey	20	28	26	25	10	6	17	22	9	91	48
England and Wales	28	44	30	21	13	11	22	24	14	94	69

General Election 2010 results

The following table shows the results for all Surrey constituencies in the General Election in 2010. The results are given as percentages.

	Con	Lib Dem	Lab	UKIP	Others
East Surrey	56.7	25.9	9.0	6.9	1.5
Epsom and Ewell	56.2	26.8	11.9	4.6	0.5
Esher and Walton	58.9	24.8	10.7	3.3	2.3
Guildford	53.3	39.3	5.1	1.8	0.5
Mole Valley	57.5	28.7	7.0	5.1	1.6
Reigate	53.4	26.2	11.3	4.2	5.4
Runnymede and Weybridge	55.9	21.6	13.4	6.5	2.5
South West Surrey	58.7	30.2	6.0	2.6	2.6
Spelthorne	47.1	25.9	16.5	8.5	2.2
Surrey Heath	57.6	25.8	10.2	6.3	--
Woking	50.3	37.4	8.0	3.8	0.5
Average	55.1	28.4	9.9	4.9	1.8

Current and past rates [for minimum wage]

This table shows the current and past rates and is correct as of October 2012.

From	Adult Rate	Development Rate	16-17 Year Olds Rate	Apprentice Rate
1 Oct 2012	£6.19	£4.98	£3.68	£2.65
1 Oct 2011	£6.08	£4.98	£3.68	£2.60
1 Oct 2010	£5.93	£4.92	£3.64	£2.50
1 Oct 2009	£5.80	£4.83	£3.57	–
1 Oct 2008	£5.73	£4.70	£3.53	–
1 Oct 2007	£5.52	£4.60	£3.53	–
1 Oct 2006	£5.35	£4.45	£3.40	–
1 Oct 2005	£5.05	£4.25	£3.30	–
1 Oct 2004	£4.85	£4.10	£3.00	–
1 Oct 2003	£4.50	£3.80	£3.00	–
1 Oct 2002	£4.20	£3.50	–	–
1 Oct 2001	£4.10	£3.50	–	–
1 Oct 2000	£3.70	£3.20	–	–
1 Apr 1999	£3.60	£3.00	–	–

Surrey Police

Surrey Police employee numbers:

	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12
Police Officers	1,959	1,967	1,963	1,944	1,872	1,890	1,885	1,974
Special Constables	289	280	275	278	314	327	337	345
PCSOs	115	126	203	211	206	224	229	228
Police Staff	1,472	1,541	1,680	1,808	1,732	1,829	1,805	1,715
Designated Officers	39	76	104	179	338	263	287	306

References how-to

The following is a reminder to myself about how to do references:

<ref>BBC (24 April 2013). [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22278947 Milly Dowler police 'amnesia' over phone hack claims].</ref>