Crime: Stafford
(asked on 13th October 2014) - 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 level of crime in Stafford constituency in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
The table provided shows the number of offences in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership in each of the past five years.
According to the latest police recorded crime figures (published on 16th October), crime has fallen by more than 20% over the last five years in the Partnership.
The data requested are also published on the Home Office website, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
| Table A: Police Recorded Crime (excluding fraud) in the Stafford Community Safety Partnership, year to June 2009 to year to June 2014 | |
| Numbers | |
| Year | Total offences |
| Year to June 2010 | 7,200 |
| Year to June 2011 | 6,765 |
| Year to June 2012 | 6,340 |
| Year to June 2013 | 5,286 |
| Year to June 2014 | 5,536 |
| 1. Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office | |
| 2. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. | |
3. Action Fraud have taken over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces. This process began in April 2011 and was rolled out to all police forces by March 2013. To enable comparison of data across the five year period, fraud data have been excluded. | |