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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will break down the offences committed within the Hertsmere police division in each year since 1992. [150050] Mr. Charles Clarke: The information requested was not collected centrally prior to September 1999 and is currently collected only for offences of violence against the person, sexual offences, robbery, domestic burglary, theft of a vehicle and theft from a vehicle. Table 1 presents the number of offences recorded in Hertsmere in the year to September 2000; there are no previous comparable year data held centrally. This information, and that on all other Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, was published in table 5 of the Home Office Statistical Bulletin 1/01, "Recorded Crime England and Wales October 1999 to September 2000", available in the Library. Table 1: Hertsmere Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership-- notifiable offences recorded by the police October 1999-September 2000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Title/reference Hertsmere Hertfordshire Population (thousand) 97.3 Households (thousand) 39 Violence against the person (class 1-8, 11-15, 37/1, 104, 105) Offences 731 Per 1,000 population 7.5 Sexual offences (class 16-27, 74) Offences 50 Per 1,000 population 0.5 Robbery (class 34) Offences 51 Per 1,000 population 0.5 Burglary dwelling (class 28,29) Offences 489 Per 1,000 population 5.0 Per 1,000 h/h 12.6 Theft of a motor vehicle (class 37/2, 48) Offences 344 Per 1,000 population 3.5 Theft from a vehicle (class 45) Offences 1,309 Per 1,000 population 13.5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

150050; 363 c60-1W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Crime Crimes of violence Burglary Motor vehicles Sexual offences Theft Robbery Hertfordshire

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