Home Department written question – answered at on 4 February 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) vehicle crimes, (b) robberies, (c) violent crimes and (d) drug-related crimes were recorded in Warwickshire in each year since 2005.
The available information is given in the following table.
The term "violent crime" is no longer used in relation to the police recorded crime statistics and figures for offences of violence against the person have been provided.
Data collected centrally on recorded crime do not identify whether offences are drug related. The recorded crime statistics do include the number of specific drug offences recorded by the police and the available information is given in the table.
Selected offences recorded by the police in Warwickshire | ||||
Number of offences | ||||
Vehicle crime( 1) | Robbery | Violence against the person | Drug offences | |
2005-06 | 7,076 | 429 | 6,569 | 1,317 |
2006-07 | 7,649 | 488 | 7,386 | 1,593 |
2007-08 | 5,790 | 375 | 7,526 | 1,359 |
2008-09 | 5,769 | 334 | 5,957 | 1,314 |
2009-10 | 4,740 | 280 | 5,302 | 1,645 |
(1) Includes theft of and from a vehicle and interfering with a motor vehicle. |
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