Home Department written question – answered at on 27 June 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded under each section of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in 2010.
It is not possible to separately identify crimes relating to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 from the data that the police send to Home Office Statistics Unit. Offences relating to this Act have been grouped together in Home Office classification 8L ‘harassment’. There were 53,029 offences recorded in this classification for 2009-10, the latest year for which data are published. This classification also includes a small number of summary offences of harassment of a person in his home under the Section 42A Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 as added to by Section 126 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.
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