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Mr. Alan Campbell: Breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) is a criminal offence. The number of occasions on which ASBOs were proven to have been breached at all courts in the Staffordshire Criminal Justice System (CJS) area and the West Midlands Government Office Region (GOR) during 2007 is 98 and 720 respectively. ASBOs may be breached more than once and in more than one year. Many ASBOs which are breached in a particular year will have been issued in a previous year. ASBOs may be issued in one CJS area and breached in another-the breach occasions counted here are based on area of breach, not issue. The West Midlands GOR comprises the Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands CJS areas.

Data on breaches of ASBOs collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice and held on the court proceedings database only count those occasions where the breach was proven in court to have occurred and are currently available for ASBOs issued between 1 June 2000 and 31 December 2007. These data are not compiled below CJS area level.

Burglary: Rotherham

Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of burglary were recorded in Rotherham in each year since 2005. [308141]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is given in the following table.

Recorded offences of burglary in the Rotherham Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership area

Burglary in a dwelling Other burglary Total burglary

2005-06

1,374

2,151

3,525

2006-07

1,457

2,106

3,563

2007-08

1,313

1,818

3,131

2008-09

1,184

1,674

2,858


Children: Police Custody

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department provides to chief constables on detention of children in police cells; and if he will make a statement. [309886]

Mr. Hanson: The Home Office issues two pieces of guidance on the detention of those in custody, including juveniles.

The PACE Codes of Practice, specifically PACE Code C, outline the requirements on the police with regards to juveniles in custody. Copies of the PACE Codes can be found on the Home Office website:

In addition to the PACE Codes, the Home Office, in conjunction with the Association of Chief Police Officers and the National Centre for Policing Excellence (now the National Policing Improvement Agency), has also published "Guidance on the Safer Detention and Handling of Persons in Police Custody". This guidance is also available on the Home Office website:


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Crime: Nottingham

Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crimes, (b) crimes of domestic burglary, (c) vehicle-related crimes and (d) violent crimes there were in Nottingham North constituency in (i) 1997 and (ii) the last year for which information is available. [309024]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Recorded crime data are not collected specifically at constituency level. The available data relate to the most closely linked Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area. CDRP data are available only from 1999-2000 onwards. Data for the Nottingham CDRP area for 2008-09 are given in the following table:

Offences recorded by Nottingham police, 2008-09
Offence Number

Total crime

47,467

Domestic burglary

4,367

Vehicle-related crime

6,096

Violence against the person

8,599


Crime: Olympic Games 2012

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has made an assessment of the likely effects on levels of crime of the staging of the London 2012 Olympics. [308480]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Consideration of levels of crime associated with staging the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games is undertaken as part of the regular Olympic strategic threat assessment process. Analysis of experiences at previous games indicates and in the footprint of 2012 Olympic venues suggests that reported crime is unlikely to rise substantially, if at all, during games time. However, we are regularly assessing the possibility of changes in crime levels specifically related to the Olympics and putting in place work to address this where necessary.

Crimes of Violence: Knives

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people in each youth offending team area were (a) assaulted with a knife and (b) killed in a knife attack in each year since 1997. [308099]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The requested information is not collected centrally.

Crimes of Violence: Sussex

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) offences involving violence against the person, (b) violent sexual offences and (c) offences of robbery with violence there were in each basic command unit of the Sussex police force area in each year from 2002-03 to 2008-09. [308454]

Mr. Alan Campbell: Data for all BCUs across this period are given in tables A to C. Table A contains the data on violence against the person offences, table B contains the data on sexual offences and table C contains the data on robbery offences.

The Basic Command Unit (BCU) structure in Sussex has changed across this period, as reflected in the tables.


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The terms 'violent sexual offences' and 'robbery with violence' do not correspond to recognised Home Office
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offence categories. Figures are given for 'sexual offences' and 'robbery', which are Home Office categories.

Table A: Violence against the person offences recorded by Sussex police by BCU (Basic Command Unit), 2002-03 to 2008-09( 1)
Violence against the person offences
BCU name( 2) 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Brighton and Hove

4,591

4,040

6,287

7,069

7,628

6,549

5,213

East Downs(3)

2,292

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

East Downs

n/a

3,635

5,536

5,441

n/a

n/a

n/a

East Sussex

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

9,284

7,885

6,343

Gatwick

106

241

459

555

342

403

238

Hastings and Rother

3,050

3,238

4,186

4,140

n/a

n/a

n/a

Highdown

2,923

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

North Downs

n/a

3,492

4,607

4,732

5,008

4,154

3,634

Weald

1,497

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

West Downs

n/a

4,854

6,018

5,930

6,356

6,091

4,838

Western

1,559

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Total

16,018

19,500

27,093

27,867

28,618

25,082

20,266


Table B: Sexual offences recorded by Sussex police by BCU (Basic Command Unit), 2002-03 to 2008-09( 1)
Sexual offences
BCU name( 2) 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09

Brighton and Hove

214

290

438

402

330

282

328

East Downs(3)

147

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

East Downs

n/a

185

369

284

n/a

n/a

n/a

East Sussex

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

538

446

437

Gatwick

6

12

7

14

19

10

3

Hastings and Rother

225

167

279

265

n/a

n/a

n/a

Highdown

185

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

North Downs

n/a

263

309

305

320

248

277

Weald

200

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

West Downs

n/a

284

399

389

409

341

333

Western

106

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Total

1,083

1,201

1,801

1,659

1,616

1,327

1,378


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