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CRIME - KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 1997-2010
British Crime Survey Crime 1997—2010:
Overall crime down 35% Domestic Burglary down 55% Vehicle theft down 51% Violent crime down 34%
Results:
· Record police numbers – up more than 14,000 since 1997
· Over 7,800 Community Support Officers, with 16,000 planned by April 2007
· Over 7,350 ASBO’s and nearly 300,000 Penalty Notices for Disorder issued
· Over 500 crack houses closed
· Nearly 4m fewer victims of crime than in 1997 (6m fewer than in 1995)
· Levels of worry about crime down a third since 2000 (stable compared with 2004/05)
· Over 300,000 more offences brought to justice between March ’02-March ‘06
· Tougher sentencing – e.g. 5 year minimum sentence introduced for unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm.
· 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.
· On average close to £1 million crime cash seized every week
· Put in place the biggest ever expansion of CCTV – investing over £150m · 6,000 more prison places since ‘97 with 8,000 extra places planned by 2012Under the Tories (recorded crime 1979-1997)
· Crime doubled, car crime doubled, burglary doubled · Violent crime by 170% (recorded) and 51% (BCS), robbery rose by 400% · The chance of being a victim of violent crime trebled · Convictions fell by a third · Police numbers fell every year from 1993
“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) |
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