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(c) Burglary offences make up 22 per cent of all recorded property crimes. During 1998/99 domestic burglaries fell by 5.7 per cent (473,400 offences were recorded), with non-domestic burglaries falling by 1.6 per cent to 479,800 offences. Despite falls during the past six years, the total number of burglaries recorded is still 19 per cent higher than ten years ago. (d) Thefts made up 51 per cent of all recorded property crimes. During 1998/99 recorded thefts fell by 0.9 per cent to 2,191,500 thefts - the sixth consecutive financial year fall. However, theft offences are still 12 per cent higher than ten years ago. (e) Within the theft offence group, thefts of and from vehicles decreased by 2.2 per cent to 1,077,700 thefts. Thefts from vehicles decreased by 2.1 per cent to 685,900 while thefts of vehicles fell by 2.4 per cent to 391,800. Although this is the sixth consecutive decrease in thefts of and from vehicles there were still 10 per cent more such crimes recorded than 10 years ago. In addition since April 1998, 48,000 offences of vehicle interference and tampering and 354,700 offences of criminal damage to a motor vehicle were recorded. The inclusion of the interference and tampering offence category may have indirectly reduced the number of attempted vehicle thefts recorded by some police force areas, owing to the difficulty of distinguishing crimes of vehicle interference from attempted thefts. (f) Offences of thefts from the person rose by 8.9 per cent to 63,100 during 1998/99 –more than reversing the small fall recorded during the previous year. Thefts from shops increased by 2.9 per cent to 282,000. Thefts of pedal cycles decreased for the seventh financial year running – the 10.6 per cent fall reduced the total to 128,600 offences. (g) Fraud and forgery offences rose by 27.5 per cent. This is after the exclusion of the effect of the new counting rules, which now allows the recording of unreported cheque and credit card fraud offences that are discovered by the police in subsequent investigation. In some forces the change in counting rules has coincided with a review of recording practices for cheque and credit card fraud offences. These reviews have resulted in more reported offences being recorded, thus causing increases in recorded offences that are not directly attributable to the new rules. (h) There were 879,600 criminal damage offences recorded in 1998/99, a fall of 3.2 per cent on the previous year. This total contained 47,300 arson offences and 3,300 threats to commit criminal damage. Forty-three per cent of the remaining criminal damage was against vehicles, 27 per cent against dwellings, 19 per cent against other buildings, and 11 per cent against other “objects” such as bus shelters and post boxes. 4
Figure 3 UNDERLYING TREND IN NOTIFIABLE OFFENCES Twelve months ending March 1999 compared to previous twelve months All offences Theft from vehicle Theft of vehicle Theft from shop Theft from person Theft of pedal cycle Other theft & handling Burglary in dwelling Burglary other Criminal damage Fraud and forgery Violence against the person Sexual offences Robbery Drug offences Other offences -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Percentage change 3. VIOLENT CRIME (TABLES A, 1, 3, 6; FIGURES 1, 2, 3, 4) (a) A total of 605,800 violent offences were recorded by the police during 1998/99, a trend reduction of 6.0 per cent on the total recorded in 1998/99. This follows rises of 8.9 per cent and 1.4 per cent in the previous two years. (b) The most common violent crime category was violence against the person, which accounted for 83 per cent of all recorded violent crime. Robberies comprised 11 per cent of violent offences, whilst the remaining 6 per cent were sexual offences. Homicide offences (which comprise murder, manslaughter and infanticide) accounted for 0.1 per cent of all violent crime. (c) There were 502,800 offences of violence against the person recorded during 1998/99. More serious offences of violence, i.e. those which are life threatening, numbered 27,000; within this category there were 750 homicides, 2 deaths more than during the previous year. 475,700 less serious offences of violence were recorded; nearly one-third of these offences were the newly notifiable offence of common assault. Over 79,500 offences of harassment were recorded. The underlying trend for all violence against the person offences shows a 9.9 per cent fall since 1997/98. 5
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