, Labour’s Shadow Home
Secretary, responding ONS crime statistics, said:
“These crime statistics are a shocking indictment of government
policy. The Tories have allowed serious and violent crime to
surge on their watch. They have also failed in almost every
aspect of tackling crime, not just by cutting the police, but
also by cutting youth services, the schools’ budget
and funding for mental health services, the list goes on.
“The Tory claim that they are tough on crime in no way reflects
the impact of ten years of cuts and chaos, which all the current
government ministers supported. Our communities deserve
better. Labour will tackle crime with an integrated public health
approach which means more police, ending austerity and investing
in our public services.”
Ends
Notes to Editors
ONS crime statistics published today (Thursday) show:
- · Violence
- o Police recorded violence – 1,694,644
offences (highest on record)
- o Police recorded offences involving a
knife or sharp instrument increased by 7% to a record 44,076
offences (excl. GMP).
- o Police recorded offences involving
firearms saw a 4% increase (to 6,734 offences)
- o Police recorded robbery offences saw
an 11% increase (to 88,177 offences).
- · Fraud and theft
- o The CSEW estimated a 15% increase in
fraud offences (to a record 3,863,000 offences), driven
mainly by increases in bank and credit account fraud (17%, to
2,666,000 offences).
- o No change in overall theft offences
estimated by the CSEW (3,690,000 offences) in the latest
year, but an 11% rise compared with the year ending March
2017.
- o Vehicle offences recorded by the
police increased by 3% to 469,915. This was mainly the result
of increases in “theft or unauthorised taking of a motor
vehicle” (7%, to 115,777) and “theft from a vehicle” (2%, to
284,225).
- o No change in overall theft offences
recorded by police, but there was a 10% increase in “theft
from a person” offences recorded by the police in the last
year, to 109,096. Since the year ending March 2015 there has
been a 39% rise.
- · Charge rate is now
at 7.4% - lowest on record - down from 8.7% in YE Jun 18. In 45%
of cases no suspect is identified (down from 46.6% a year
before)/
Home Office, Crime outcomes YE June 2019, 17 October
2019, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-year-to-june-2019-data-tables?utm_source=a8f47ae4-719a-40db-85b8-43ff086d9171&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate
