Crimes of Violence: Bury St Edmunds
(asked on 16th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of offences of violence against a person in Bury St Edmunds constituency in the last five years.
The Home Office has made no specific assessment of the trend in the number of offences of violence against a person recorded by the police in the Bury St Edmunds constituency over the last five years. The table below provides the number of such offences recorded by the police in the Western Suffolk Community Safety Partnership area, which includes Bury St Edmunds, over that period. It also provides the number of such offences for Suffolk as a whole.
Violence against the person offences recorded by the police, Western Suffolk Community Safety Partnership and Suffolk police force area, year ending June 2010 to year ending June 2015 | |||||||
Year ending June 2010 | Year ending June 2011 | Year ending June 2012 | Year ending June 2013 | Year ending June 2014 | Year ending June 2015 | % change year ending June 2010 to year ending June 2015 | |
Western Suffolk Community Safety Partnership | 3,046 | 3,008 | 3,003 | 2,897 | 3,027 | 4,211 | 38% |
Suffolk police force area | 8,061 | 7,786 | 7,954 | 7,109 | 7,125 | 9,679 | 20% |
The Office for National Statistics has said that recent increases in recorded violence reflect both better crime recording by police forces and a greater willingness of victims of domestic abuse to come forward.
The independent Crime Survey for England and Wales, which is not affected by police crime recording practice, shows that overall crime is down by more than a quarter since June 2010, and that violence has fallen by 27% over the same period.