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Home Office

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Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences were committed in the borough of Hertsmere in each of the last four years for which figures are available, broken down by type of offence; and what the clear-up rate was in each case. [131948] Mr. Charles Clarke: The latest available data for notifiable offences recorded by the police in Hertsmere are given in the table. No data are available for the year to March 1997 due to substantial changes in boundaries. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year to March 1998 Year to March 1999 Year to March 2000 Offences Percentage Offences Percentage Offences Percentage cleared up cleared up cleared up Violence against the 296 75.3 661 64.8 1,000 39.3 person Sexual offences 89 100.0 29 41.4 60 36.7 Robbery 43 27.9 28 10.7 49 4.1 Burglary{1} -- -- 904 15.6 1,054 7.5 Theft and handling 2,600 15.2 2,481 13.0 3,026 8.7 Fraud and forgery 373 25.7 293 19.1 466 9.9 Criminal damage 1,355 14.8 1,242 11.1 1,516 7.5 Drug offences{1} -- -- 118 {2}115.3 103 95.1 Other notifiable 54 72.2 51 45.1 59 20.3 offences Total 5,657 21.7 5,807 21.7 7,333 14.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Data for the year to March 1998 are not available {2} Clear up rates are based on crimes detected in a given period compared to crimes recorded in that period, because some crimes detected in the period may have been recorded in a previous one the clear up rate can exceed 100 per cent. Notes: 1. The rules for recording crimes changed in April 1998 which led to a large increase in the number recorded, see Home Office Statistical Bulletin 18/99 `Recorded Crime Statistics, England and Wales April 1998 to March 1999' for more details 2. The definition of clear ups changed in April 1999, to exclude certain types of police action that would previously have been recorded as clear ups, and led to a decrease in clear up rates, see Home Office Statistical Bulletin 12/00 `Recorded Crime Statistics, England and Wales April 1999 to March 2000' for more details

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

354 c708W; 131948

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Crime Crimes of violence Burglary Fraud Drugs Sexual offences Theft Robbery Vandalism Hertfordshire Detection rates

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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