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Quarterly update to December 2006

The Home Office publishes quarterly reports reports of police recorded crime figures and people's experience of crime as recorded through the British Crime Survey. Each report looks at crime over the previous 12 months. This report details crime over the 12 months to December 2006.

Title: Crime in England & Wales: Quarterly update to December 2006
Authors: Jorgen Lovbakke, Paul Taylor and Sarah Budd
Series: Home Office Statistical Bulletin 07/07
Number of pages: 10
Date published: April 2007
Availability: Download full report PDF 148Kb

Main points

• The risk of being a victim of crime as measured by the British Crime Survey (BCS), at 24%, has increased by one percentage point compared with the year to December 2005 (23%). This is the same level of risk as for the previous quarterly update to September 2006.
• The number of crimes recorded by the police fell by 2% for the period October to December 2006 compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
• There was no statistically significant change in BCS violent crime for interviews in the year ending December 2006 compared with the previous year. Recorded violent crime for October to December 2006 showed a 1% decrease over the same period in 2005.
• In the latest quarter, BCS vehicle thefts and domestic burglary showed no statistically significant differences compared with interviews in the year to December 2005. Recorded domestic burglary and vehicle crime each fell by 3%.
• BCS interviews in the 12 months to December 2006 showed a statistically significant rise of 11% in the number of incidents of vandalism. Recorded crime showed a 2% rise in criminal damage.
• In the 12 months to December 2006 there were a provisional 9,513 firearm offences. This was a decrease of 1,761 offences, or 16%, compared to the 12 months ending December 2005.
• The BCS showed no change in the overall levels of perceived anti-social behaviour. Levels of worry about crime also remained stable.
• Confidence in the CJS being effective in bringing offenders to justice, reducing crime, and meeting the needs of victims decreased compared to the year to December 2005, whilst confidence in the local police improved.
  

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Last update: Thursday, April 26, 2007