Mr Tom Cox
Labour, Tooting
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of domestic violence have been reported to the Metropolitan police in each of the last three years.
Hazel Blears
Minister of State (Home Office) (Policing, Security and Community Safety), Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee
The number of domestic violence incidents reported to the Metropolitan Police Service in each of the last three years are set out in the table:
| Number of reported domestic violence incidents | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 90,974 |
| 2002–03 | 104,000 |
| 2003–04 | 106,879 |
The rise in figures from 2001–02 to 2002–03 is attributable to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. This system changed the way in which police record crime with the aim of promoting greater consistency between force recording. This had the effect of increasing the amount of crime recorded.
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