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Home Office

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Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown of crime statistics for (a) Hertsmere and (b) Hertfordshire for each year since 1997, including the most recent figures available. [96948] Mr. Denham: The number of offences recorded in the Hertsmere Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP), and theHertfordshire police force area for the years requested are given in the table. Currently, six key offence groups are recorded and published at Crime and Disorder Partnership level. Data have been collected at this level since 1 April 1999. All main offence groups are collected at police force area level. There was a change in counting rules for recorded crime on 1 April 1998, which would have the tendency to increase thenumber of offences counted. Numbers of offences before and after this date are therefore not directly comparable. Table A--Number of recorded offences in Hertsmere Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Violence against Sexual offences Robbery Burglary in a Theft of a motor Theft from a the person dwelling vehicle vehicle 1999-20001 1,000 60 49 480 325 1,305 2001-01 453 33 52 512 303 1.223 2001-02 303 22 77 544 395 1,135 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Parts of this area were policed by the Metropolitan Police until 1 April 2000, when responsibility for policing was transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary. Table B--Number of offences recorded by Hertfordshire Constabulary, from 1997 to 2001/02, by offence group _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year Total Violence Sexual Robbery Burglary Theft and Fraud and Criminal Drug and against offences handling Forgery damage other the person stolen offences goods 1997 1 50,050 2,311 290 289 9,345 26,200 1,345 9,831 3439 1998-99 2 49,309 3,313 321 250 8,353 22,935 2,312 10,177 1,648 1999-00 2,4 52,741 3,703 348 420 8,689 23,358 2,935 11,560 1,728 2000-01 64,215 4,485 397 508 9,945 28,987 3,982 13,839 2,072 2001-02 67,437 4,713 381 683 10,682 30,213 3,475 15,323 1,967 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Recorded on a calendar year basis. 2 The number of crimes recorded in that financial year using the expanded offence coverage and revised counting rules which came into effect on 1 April 1998. 3 Before 1 April 1998 the only drug offence recorded was "trafficking". 4 Parts of this area were policed by the Metropolitan Police until 1 April 2000, when responsibility for policing was transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary. The figures given for this year are based on the `Old boundaries'.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

96948; 399 c772-4W;399 c770-2W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Crime Hertfordshire

Contains statistics

Yes

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