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Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many offences there were and what the rate of incidence per 1,000 population was of (a) violence against the person, (b) sexual offences, (c) robbery, (d) burglary, (e) theft and handling stolen goods, (f) fraud and forgery, (g) criminal damage and (h) drug and other offences in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) the North West and (iv) England in (A) 1997, (B) 1998, (C) 1999, (D) 2000 and (E) 2001; [71276]
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Mr. John Denham [holding answer 23 July 2002]: The available requested information is given in the tables. For the number of offences, the number of recorded crimes are given, from which the rates per population and detection rates are calculated.
It should be noted that there was a change of counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998, and so numbers of recorded crimes and detection rates before and after that date are not directly comparable. Also, some forces will have introduced the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard ahead of its national implementation on 1 April 2002, and so this will be reflected in the England and North West Region figures. The counting rules for detections changed on 1 April 1999, so that numbers of detections before and after that date will not be directly comparable.
It should be noted that recorded crime is subject to changes in reporting and recording. For example, the number of common assaults in England and Wales recorded in the British Crime Survey, which measures victims' experience of crime, decreased by an estimated 24 per cent. from 1999 to 200102. However, common assaults recorded by the police in that area over that period increased by 23 per cent. Offences recorded by the police may therefore not necessarily be a reflection of the real level of offences, or trends for offences.
19992000 | 200001 | 200102 | |||||||
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Offence Group | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up |
Violence against the person | 1,693 | 9.5 | 69 | 1,795 | 10.1 | 74 | 1,913 | 10.7 | 69 |
Sexual offences | 109 | 0.6 | 68 | 153 | 0.9 | 79 | 125 | 0.7 | |
Robbery | 171 | 1.0 | 21 | 168 | 0.9 | 27 | 214 | 1.2 | 36 |
Burglary in a dwelling | 15 | 14 | 17 |
(84) Full details of the other offence groups were not collected in the time period requested.
1997 | 199899 | 19992000 | 200001 | 200102 | |||||||||||
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Offence Group | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offence cleared up | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up |
Violence against the person | 8,083 | 5.7 | 69 | 12,208 | 8.6 | 74 | 14,639 | 10.4 | 69 | 15,855 | 11.3 | 71 | 16,030 | 11.4 | 64 |
Sexual offences | 906 | 0.6 | 82 | 1,019 | 0.7 | 73 | 935 | 0.7 | 67 | 982 | 0.7 | 68 | 1,018 | 0.7 | 55 |
Robbery | 2,141 | 1.5 | 25 | 2,484 | 1.8 | 23 | 2,663 | 1.9 | 18 | 2,405 | 1.7 | 21 | 3,155 | 2.3 | 19 |
Burglary | 26,266 | 18.5 | 26 | 26,498 | 18.8 | 22 | 25,638 | 18.2 | 12 | 23,938 | 17.1 | 13 | 25,478 | 18.2 | 12 |
Burglary in dwelling | 30 | 27 | 15 | 17 | 15 | ||||||||||
Theft and Handling | 58,520 | 41.2 | 29 | 59,044 | 41.8 | 24 | 62,230 | 44.2 | 19 | 57,844 | 41.2 | 21 | 59,698 | 42.5 | 19 |
Fraud and Forgery | 4,269 | 3.0 | 59 | 4,884 | 3.5 | 59 | 4,794 | 3.4 | 55 | 5,021 | 3.6 | 53 | 5,380 | 3.8 | 28 |
Criminal damage | 23,677 | 16.7 | 15 | 27,465 | 19.4 | 12 | 30,822 | 21.9 | 11 | 30,593 | 21.8 | 12 | 33,899 | 24.2 | 10 |
Drug offences | 5,620 | 4.0 | 95 | 4,838 | 3.4 | 99 | 4,421 | 3.2 | 97 | 4,390 | 3.1 | 95 | |||
Other offences | 2,117 | 1.5 | 97 | 1,652 | 1.2 | 90 | 1,613 | 1.1 | 82 | 1,748 | 1.3 | 79 | 1,886 | 1.3 | 76 |
Total | 125,979 | 88.7 | 31 | 14,0874 | 99.7 | 31 | 14,8172 | 105.1 | 26 | 14,2807 | 101.7 | 28 | 15,0934 | 107.6 | 24 |
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1997 | 199899 | 19992000 | 200001 | 200102 | |||||||||||
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Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | Offences recorded | Offences per 1,000 population | Percentage cleared up | |
Violence against the person | 233,441 | 4.8 | 78 | 470,689 | 9.6 | 70 | 543,,116 | 11.0 | 63 | 562,692 | 11.3 | 60 | 613,661 | 12.3 | 57 |
Sexual offences | 31,291 | 0.6 | 76 | 34,356 | 0.7 | 67 | 36,043 | 0.7 | 57 | 35,605 | 0.7 | 51 | 39,674 | 0.8 | 48 |
Robbery | 62,261 | 1.3 | 27 | 65,982 | 1.3 | 22 | 83,368 | 1.7 | 18 | 94,264 | 1.9 | 18 | 120345 | 2.4 | 16 |
Burglary | 968,630 | 19.7 | 22 | 911,243 | 18.5 | 18 | 869,704 | 17.6 | 12 | 803,144 | 16.2 | 12 | 846,287 | 16.9 | 12 |
Burglary in dwelling | 25 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 14 | ||||||||||
Theft and Handling | 2,059,130 | 42.0 | 24 | 208,7864 | 42.4 | 21 | 2,124,893 | 42.9 | 17 | 2,056,337 | 41.3 | 17 | 2,177,042 | 43.5 | 16 |
Fraud and Forgery | 128,641 | 2.6 | 48 | 267,497 | 5.4 | 35 | 322,884 | 6.5 | 29 | 308,875 | 6.2 | 28 | 307,165 | 6.1 | 27 |
Criminal damage | 822,029 | 16.8 | 16 | 823,520 | 16.7 | 17 | 890,756 | 18.0 | 15 | 906800 | 18.2 | 14 | 1007567 | 20.2 | 13 |
Drug offences | 126,196 | 2.6 | 97 | 113,346 | 2.3 | 96 | 105,107 | 2.1 | 95 | 111,895 | 2.2 | 94 | |||
Other offences | 55,968 | 1.1 | 95 | 59748 | 1.2 | 77 | 61,590 | 1.2 | 73 | 59,566 | 1.2 | 71 | 61,681 | 1.2 | 70 |
Total | 4,361,391 | 88.9 | 27 | 4,847,095 | 98.4 | 28 | 5,045,700 | 101.9 | 24 | 4932390 | 99.1 | 24 | 5,285,317 | 105.7 | 23 |
There was no separate drug offence category in 1997. Trafficking was included in "Other Offences".
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