§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the police constabularies and the particular divisions of these constabularies in the areas of which the crime rate fell in 1972; and if he will study the areas where reductions occurred with a view to emulating any successful arrangements applying in these areas.
§ Mr. CarlisleThe following are the force areas in which there was a reduction in 1972 compared with 1971 in the provisional number of offences recorded as known to the police per thousand of the population; figures for individual divisions are not readily available. In most cases the variation is small, and it would be unwise to draw conclusions from such fluctuations, which may conceal increases in individual offence groups, for example crimes of violence. Methods of preventing and detecting crime are the subject of continuing study by the Home Office, which takes full account of promising new developments wherever they may occur.
Police Forces in whose areas Offences Recorded as known to the Police fell per 1,000 Population in 1972
- Birmingham City Police.
- Bedfordshire and Luton Constabulary
- Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
161 - Dorset and Bournemouth Constabulary.
- Dyfed Powys Constabulary.
- Essex and Southend-on-Sea Joint Constabulary.
- Hampshire Constabulary.
- Leicester and Rutland Constabulary.
- Lincolnshire Constabulary.
- City of London.
- Manchester and Salford Police.
- Mid-Anglia Constabulary.
- Norfolk Joint Police.
- Northampton and County Constabulary.
- Somerset and Bath Constabulary.
- Staffordshire County and Stoke-on-Trent Constabulary.
- Suffolk Constabulary.
- Sussex Constabulary.
- Teesside Constabulary.
- Warwickshire and Coventry Constabulary.
- West Midlands Constabulary.
- West Yorkshire Constabulary.
- York and North-East Yorkshire Constabulary.