What are the numbers and rates of:

• Street Robbery
• Armed Robbery
• Snatch Theft

How do crime rates compare with other areas?

What trends can be detected?

What items tend to be stolen?

What proportion of stolen property is recovered?

What are the commodity trends that influence rates of crime? E.g. mobile phones, expensive jewellery, watches, training shoes etc.

Police (data / analysis of recorded crimes)

Retailers

Victim Support

Town Centre Wardens

Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators

Recorded crime figures at BCU and CDRP level

Community surveys/ consultations

Insurance companies

• Are there particular hotspots (wards or streets)?

• Are there particular types of location?

• On the street
• Railway Stations
• Bus Stations
• Garages, Off Licences etc.
• Areas lacking natural/technical surveillance

• Do locations share common physical features? E.g. ease of access/egress

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

NW co-ordinators

Community surveys/ consultations

(Information on unrecorded and unreported crimes)

Insurance contacts: (risk assessments for different areas.

Is the risk of crime higher at certain times of the:

• Day
• Week
• Year?

What trends can be detected?

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

Transport operators

Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators

Retail Associations

Community surveys/ consultations

Are there spates of crime in particular locations?

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

Town Centre Managers

Schools

CCTV footage

What concerns the public most?

What is the impact on victims?

What is the value of items / property stolen?

Are local services (shops, community facilities etc) effected by levels of attendance?

Community consultations

(Focus groups / surveys etc)

Police (data/analysis of recorded crimes)

Victim Support

Reparation schemes (feedback from victims)

General practitioners/ health authority/ hospitals

(e.g. feedback on stress-related illness)

Local insurance contacts

Do victims share common characteristics (eg age, gender, type of property, routines).

What types of person or premises is most vulnerable?

Why are some people more likely to be victims than others? ( E.g. young people, or the type of property available to the offender)

What is stolen?

Police (data /analysis of recorded crimes)

Insurance companies

Police (data / analysis of recorded crimes)

Insurance companies

Do crimes tend to be committed in a certain way?

May give clues to the number /sophistication of

What is the offender's motivation?

Is the location of offender/offence a critical factor?

Is the crime opportunistic?

Has the offender made a rational choice to offend?

What has dissuaded offending (capable guardian etc.)?

Probation Service / YOTs

GIS crime pattern trends

Hot Spot analysis

Drug dependency Units/DAT