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Crime Statistics

Answer

Information is not available in the form requested. ‘Mugging’ is not a legal term and in terms of the recorded crime statistics such offences are generally recorded under the ‘Robbery of personal property’ classification. Offences recorded and detected in each Basic Command Unit in the Metropolitan Police area are given in table 1.Court proceedings data does not distinguish between offences of robbery of personal or business property. Information taken from the Court Proceedings Database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform showing the number of defendants proceeded at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for robbery in Greater London, by court area, in 2003-05, is provided in table 2.Since recorded crime deals with offences and court proceedings data is based on offenders, the two sets of data are not directly comparable.

Table 1: offences of robbery of personal property recorded and detected in the metropolitan police service area
Number of offences
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
Basic command unit	Recorded	Detected	Recorded	Detected	Recorded	Detected
Barking and Dagenham	698	76	661	82	695	116
Barnet	995	132	1,132	138	1,131	108
Bexley	323	45	373	35	421	77
Brent	1,734	.116	2,015	144	2,247	312
Bromley	750	67	657	92	816	138
Camden	1,244	164	1,277	79	1,212	138
City of Westminster	1,345	245	1,439	262	1,518	274
Croydon	1,595	187	1,418	184	1,711	196
Ealing	1,395	199	1,476	127	1,886	164
Enfield	1,106	139	1,064	149	1,354	182
Greenwich	953	166	1,096	141	1,145	125
Hackney	2,306	164	1,854	248	1,778	228
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,095	111	1,340	100	1,244	110
Haringey	1,775	204	1,365	127	1,919	281
Harrow	591	40	669	100	828	178
Havering	437	53	351	49	393	50
Heathrow	5	0	5	0	7	0
Hillingdon	456	77	542	59	784	83
Hounslow	758	93	664	96	783	149
Islington	1,274	274	1,161	271	1,307	313
Kensington and Chelsea	768	69	761	79	876	85
Kingston upon Thames	262	49	238	12	316	85
Lambeth	3,146	240	2,922	225	2,759	321
Lewisham	1,769	237	1,684	221	2,161	226
Merton	528	99	419	58	587	100
Newham	2,038	193	1,765	182	2,310	222
Redbridge	1,098	127	1,168	126	1,249	152
Richmond upon Thames	231	23	344	32	424	74
Southwark	2,085	273	2,277	265	2,791	456
Sutton	314	83	203	45	387	62
Tower Hamlets	1,446	144	1,346	113	1,604	194
Waltham Forest	1,539	149	1,714	119	2,273	210
Wandsworth	1,417	176	1,407	120	1,565	156
Total	37,476	4,414	36,807	4,080	42,481	5,565

Table 2: number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for robbery in Greater London, by court area 2003-05¹,²
	2003	2004	2005
London court area	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty
Inner London court areas
Bow Street	67	45	79	33	44	19
Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge	547	229	545	294	635	272
Greenwich and Woolwich	132	50	165	76	153	60
Highbury Corner	191	97	195	76	193	66
Horseferry Road	165	61	117	61	144	64
Marylebone	—	—	1	—	—	—
South Western	291	132	269	152	284	151
Thames	444	177	438	200	433	161
West London	336	132	284	128	263	114
Inner London Juvenile Courts	—	—	—	—	—	—
Other London court areas
Barking and Dagenham	48	26	60	45	78	33
Barnet	108	54	129	66	97	54
Bexley	17	8	39	17	46	22
Brent	116	84	138	78	181	93
Bromley	80	50	77	34	95	60
Croydon	166	74	144	88	146	91
Ealing	178	83	113	72	115	63
Enfield	142	48	97	61	144	69
Haringey	167	80	105	59	136	78
Harrow	37	19	43	25	68	35
Havering	60	27	42	29	47	22
Hillingdon	90	23	62	29	55	38
Hounslow	52	33	84	42	73	41
Kingston-upon-Thames	48	22	25	14	49	20
Merton	73	39	82	57	67	41
Newham	206	92	246	113	187	120
Redbridge	69	43	99	46	124	61
Richmond upon Thames	28	18	35	24	44	26
Sutton	42	23	57	31	36	25
Waltham Forest	146	59	104	65	110	47
Total metropolitan police	4,046	1,828	3,874	2,015	4,047	1,946
¹ These data are on the principal offence basis.
² Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces and courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
RDS—Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

102730; 453 c637-42W

Session

2006-07

Subjects

Greater London Mugging

Link

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