Crime: Cars
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 26 February 2008
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many car-related crimes there were in (a) Cambridgeshire police authority area and (b) each division within the authority in each of the last three years, broken down by category.
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
The requested information is given in the table.
Recorded crime statistics have been provided for Cambridgeshire police force area and for the three Basic Command Units (BCUs) within. BCUs equate to police divisions.
| Offences against vehicles broken down by Basic Command Unit in Cambridgeshire police force area | ||||
| Basic Command Unit | Offence Description and Code | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| Cambridgeshire Central | Vehicle interference and tampering (126) | 284 | 217 | 195 |
| Cambs Central (after April 2006) | Aggravated vehicle taking (37.2) | 54 | 33 | 26 |
| Theft from vehicle (45) | 1,517 | 1,452 | 1,444 | |
| Theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle (48) | 657 | 584 | 575 | |
| Total offences against vehicles | 2,512 | 2,286 | 2,240 | |
| Cambridgeshire Northern | Vehicle interference and tampering (126) | 531 | 442 | 519 |
| Cambs Northern (after April 2006) | Aggravated vehicle taking (37.2) | 67 | 46 | 58 |
| Theft from vehicle (45) | 3,013 | 2,718 | 2,905 | |
| Theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle (48) | 1,185 | 949 | 890 | |
| Total offences against vehicles | 4,796 | 4,155 | 4,372 | |
| Cambridgeshire Southern | Vehicle interference and tampering (126) | 235 | 251 | 225 |
| Cambs Southern (after April 2006) | Aggravated vehicle taking (37.2) | 69 | 43 | 36 |
| Theft from vehicle (45) | 1,919 | 1,910 | 2,080 | |
| Theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle (48) | 688 | 610 | 762 | |
| Total offences against vehicles | 2,911 | 2,814 | 3,103 | |
| Cambridgeshire Police Force Area total | Vehicle interference and tampering (126) | 1,050 | 910 | 939 |
| Aggravated vehicle taking (37.2) | 190 | 122 | 120 | |
| Theft from vehicle (45) | 6,449 | 6,080 | 6,429 | |
| Theft or unauthorised taking of motor vehicle (48) | 2,530 | 2,143 | 2,227 | |
| Total offences against vehicles | 10,219 | 9,255 | 9,715 | |