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Crime in Loughborough and Charnwood
Posted on 18/07/08
Eric Goodyer, Labours Prospective MP for Charnwood, welcomed the announcement by Jacqui Smith the Home Secretary that recorded crime figures have dropped by 9% for year ending March 2008.
This was supported by the results of the British Crime Survey, often claimed to be a more reliable source, which reported a drop of 10% in all crime for the same period. Since Labour came to power in 1997 all crime (as measured by the British Crime Survey) has fallen by nearly two-fifths.
This contrasts with the Conservative record on crime during which period crime doubled, and violent crime rose by 168%.
This was confirmed by their former leader Michael Howard who said We
hear only that for the period as a whole from 1979 to 1997 crime doubled
under the Tories. It is an accurate figure it did. (Hansard Col. 999, 25/5/2000).
Eric Goodyer said:
I am delighted that both recorded crime and the the British Crime
Survey have confirmed that Labours policies are working, and making the
streets of Charnwood safer
Further Information
Latest British Crime Survey statistics
Statistics from the BCS interviews for the year ending March 2008 show:
- All crime down by 10 per cent
- Violence down by 12 per cent
- All personal crime down by 11%
- All household crime down by 10%
- Vandalism down by 10 per cent
- Vehicle-related thefts down by 11 per cent
The risk of being a victim of crime down 2 percent the chance of being a victim of crime is now at its lowest level since the survey began in 1981
Latest recorded crime figures
Police recorded crime stats for the year ending March 2008 compared to the year ending March 2007 show that:
- Total recorded crime down 9 per cent
- Domestic burglary down 4 per cent
- Offences against vehicles down 14 per cent
- Robbery down by 16 per cent
- Sexual offences down 7 per cent
- Violence against the person down 8 per cent.
Annual BCS statistics (from 1997 to the year ending March 2008) reveal
that:
- Overall crime is down 39 per cent.
- Domestic burglary down 55 per cent
- All vehicle-related thefts down 57 per cent
- All household crime down 39 per cent
- All BCS violence down 40 per cent
- All personal crime down 39 per cent
The risk of being a victim of crime has fallen to 22 per cent, the lowest level ever recorded since the BCS began in 1981.
SOURCE
Crime in England and Wales 2007/08 is available online on the UK Statistics Authority website as well as the Home Office Research,
Development and Statistics website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/
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