South Thanet Labour
Party
Working for the people of the South Thanet Constituency
Beating crime under Labour
CRIME
- KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 1997-2010
British Crime
Survey Crime 19972010:
Overall crime
down 35%
Domestic
Burglary down 55%
Vehicle theft
down 51%
Violent crime
down 34%
Results:
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Record police numbers
up more than 14,000 since 1997.
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Over 7,800 Community
Support Officers, with 16,000 planned by April 2007
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Over 7,350 ASBOs and
nearly 300,000 Penalty Notices for Disorder issued
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Over 500 crack houses closed
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Nearly 4m fewer victims of crime than in 1997 (6m
fewer than in 1995)
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Levels of worry about crime down a third since 2000
(stable compared with 2004/05)
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Over 300,000 more offences brought to justice between
March 02-March 06
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Tougher sentencing e.g. 5 year minimum sentence
introduced for unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm.
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DNA database police matching 3,000 offences a
month. Direct links to offenders have tripled; 6,000 in 1998 compared to
over 20,000 last year.
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On average close to £1
million crime cash seized every week
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Put in place the biggest
ever expansion of CCTV investing over £150m
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6,000 more prison places since 97 with 8,000 extra
places planned by 2012
For
the period as a whole from 1979 to 1997 crime doubled under the Tories. It
is an accurate figure - it did. It more than doubled between 1979 and 1993.
(Michael Howard, Hansard, 24/5/00)