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Home Office

Answer

Mr. David Atkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many occurrences of each category of crime there have been in Bournemouth in each year since 1997. [195536] Ms Blears: Bournemouth is a Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area. The data available centrally is for six key offences and is available only from 1999-2000. See attached tables. Table 1: Recorded offences in Bournemouth CDRP--1997-98 to 2001-02 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Period Violence against Sexual offences Robbery Burglary in a Theft of a Theft from a the person dwelling vehicle vehicle 1997-98 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1998-99 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1-- 1999-00 1,271 118 143 1,391 1,386 3,082 2000-01 1,456 113 188 1,216 1,089 2,584 2001-02 1,732 168 959 2,955 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Not available. Note: The data in this table is prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years. Table 2: Recorded offences in Bournemouth CDRP--2002-03 and 2003-04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Period Violence against Sexual offences Robbery Burglary in a Theft of a Theft from a the person dwelling vehicle vehicle 2002-03 2,991 200 275 1,227 923 2,954 2003-04 3,294 256 284 1,463 952 2,565 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: The data in this table takes account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

195536; 426 c730W;426 c734W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Crime Crimes against the person Cars Burglary Bournemouth Motor vehicles Sexual offences Theft Robbery

Contains statistics

Yes

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