§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many attacks on(a) police officers and (b) fire officers there were in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London borough in each of the last 10 years; [159222]
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(3) how many violent crimes against people were committed in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough in each year since 1997. [159224]
§ Ms BlearsThe offence of 'Assault on a constable' was added to the recorded crime series from April 1998. The available published figures at police force area level are given in the table. A greater breakdown of recorded crime figures for 2002–03 by local authority, police force and region is given on the Home Office website at www.crimestatistics.org.uk/output/Pagel.asp.
The numbers of assaults on fire officers are not collected by the Home Office.
Number of assaults on a constable offences in Greater London (Metropolitan police and City of London) Offences recorded 1998–99 1,636 1999–2000 1,438 2000–01 1,397 Note:
Footnotes are in violent crime table.The Metropolitan police recorded 72,237 offences of Burglary in a dwelling, and 41,190 offences of Burglary in a building other than a dwelling, in the period April 2002 to March 2003, amounting to a total recorded burglary offence figure of 113,427.
A related collection, of numbers of recorded burglaries in dwellings, has been collected and published by Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) area for financial years since 1999–2000. In the Metropolitan police area, CDRP areas equate to boroughs. The requested figures are given in the table.
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Table 1: Numbers of burglary dwelling offences recorded by the Metropolitan police at CDRP level Borough/CDRP Burglary dwelling, offences recorded 2002–03 Barking and Dagenham 1,262 Barnet 2,607 Bexley 1,241 Brent 2,804 Bromley 1,923 Camden 3,348 City of Westminster 2,110 Croydon 2,769 Baling 2,912 Enfield 2,864 Greenwich 1,875 Hackney 3,646 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,186 Haringey 3,403 Harrow 1,952 Havering 1,058 Heathrow Airport 1 Hillingdon 2,023 Hounslow 1,968 Islington 3,083 Kensington and Chelsea 1,652 Kingston upon Thames 606 Lambeth 4,410
Table 1: Numbers of burglary dwelling offences recorded by the Metropolitan police at CDRP level Borough/CDRP Burglary dwelling, offences recorded 2002–03 Lewisham 2,743 Merton 1,048 Newham 2,012 Redbridge 1,757 Richmond upon Thames 1,295 Southwark 3,141 Sutton 778 Tower Hamlets 2,114 Waltham Forest 2,559 Wandsworth 3,087 The available convictions data is given in the table.
Table 2: Number of offenders1 found guilty, sentenced and sentenced to a non-custodial or custodial sentence for burglary at magistrates' courts in Greater London2,including those found guilty and sentenced at the Crown court where these courts are the committing court,2002 Sentence breakdown Found guilty Sentenced Non-custodial custodial Inner London magistrates courts2 Bow Street 136 118 50 68 Camberwell Green/Tower Bridge 562 489 198 291 Greenwich/Woolwich 212 173 50 123 Guildhall Justice Rooms 45 49 24 25 Highbury Corner 358 276 97 179 Horseferry Road 217 192 61 131 Marylebone 3 4 3 1 South Western 333 310 149 161 Thames 432 392 190 202 West London 312 272 130 142 Outer London boroughs Barking and Dagenham 95 89 48 41 Barnet 90 72 42 30 Barnet 43 47 19 28 Bexley 71 62 34 28 Brent 159 132 45 87 Bromley 95 87 39 48 Croydon 171 150 66 84 Eating 178 155 67 88 Enfield 164 144 81 63 Haringey 154 139 64 75 Harrow 82 68 39 29 Havering 73 66 34 32 Hillingdon 84 78 51 27 Hounslow 127 109 54 55 Kingston-upon-Thames 69 64 33 31 Merlon 95 87 37 50 Newham 195 176 99 77 Redbridge 124 118 44 74 Richmond-upon-Thames 91 76 42 34 Sutton 77 73 43 30 Waltham Forest 155 137 58 79 Total 5,002 4,404 1,991 2,413 1 These data are on the principal offence basis 2 Information held centrally does not allow a breakdown of cases by borough in the Inner London area The numbers of recorded violent crimes in the Greater London area in each year since 1997 are given in the table. Violent crime is composed of offences of violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery. It should be noted that both the change in counting rules for recorded on 1 April 1998, and the adoption of the National Crime Recording Standard on 1 April 2002, had the effect of inflating the number of crimes recorded, particularly for crimes of violence against the person. 783W
Number of violent offences in Greater London (including City of London) Number of recorded violent crimes 1997 87,634 1998–991 1166,551 1999–2000 202,981 2000–01 205,632 2001–02 225,522 2002–032 232,7322
Table 3: Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships from April 1999 to March 2003 Lond Region: Violent crime = Violence against the person, Sexual offences and Robbery Total violent crime: Total offences recorded CDRP Family CDRP Force 1999–20001 2000–012 2001–022 2002–032,3 1 City of London London, City of 595 605 678 1,007 6 Barking and Dagenham Metropolitan Police 3,910 4,545 5,013 5,329 3 Bamet Metropolitan Police 5,364 5,835 6,422 6,597 8 Bexley Metropolitan Police 3,595 3,815 4,062 4,098 2 Brent Metropolitan Police 7,758 8,055 8,381 8,379 8 Bromley Metropolitan Police 3,908 4,671 4,992 5,670 1 Camden Metropolitan Police 7,282 7,551 8,328 7,935 1 City of Westminster Metropolitan Police 12,200 11,397 12,269 12,352 3 Croydon Metropolitan Police 7,276 8,287 8,685 9,957 2 Ealing Metropolitan Police 8,715 8,284 9,448 9,325 3 Enfield Metropolitan Police 5,274 6,217 6,665 6,964 2 Greenwich Metropolitan Police 7,054 7,120 7,368 7,954 2 Hackney Metropolitan Police 9,469 8,966 10,081 9,646 3 Hammersmith and Fulham Metropolitan Police 5,780 5,498 5,845 5,856 2 Haringey Metropolitan Police 7,313 7,973 8,206 8,123 3 Harrow Metropolitan Police 3,102 3,147 3,668 3,573 8 Havering Metropolitan Police 3,046 3,337 3,947 4,558 3 Hillingdon Metropolitan Police 4,338 4,773 5,679 5,847 3 Hounslow Metropolitan Police 6,060 6,398 7,119 8,372 2 Islington Metropolitan Police 7,350 7,218 7,673 8,436 3 Kensington and Chelsea Metropolitan Police 4,304 4,444 4,443 4,450 3 Kingston-upon-Thames Metropolitan Police 2,713 2,860 3,138 3,312 2 Lambeth Metropolitan Police 12,167 13,156 15,241 13,752 2 Lewisham Metropolitan Police 6,722 7,250 7,856 7,795 3 Merton Metropolitan Police 3,358 3,447 3,974 4,322 2 Newham Metropolitan Police 9,344 9,784 10,383 10,679 3 Redbridge Metropolitan Police 4,453 4,847 5,182 5,892 3 Richmond-upon-Thames Metropolitan Police 2,375 2,321 2,580 2,942 2 Southwark Metropolitan Police 9,943 10,048 11,284 10,898 8 Sutton Metropolitan Police 2,469 2,393 2,905 3,476 2 Tower Hamlets Metropolitan Police 7,292 8,105 8,854 9,777 3 Waltham Forest Metropolitan Police 5,755 6,332 7,424 7,506 3 Wandsworth Metropolitan Police 6,798 6,580 7,314 7,510 Heathrow4 Metropolitan Police n/a n/a 393 403 1 CDRP total may differ from police force area total due to the boundary change on 1 April 2000, whereby the Metropolitan police ceded parts of it area to three surrounding forces (Hertfordshire, Essex and Surrey). 2 Total CDRP data may not tally exactly with published totals for police force areas. This is due to a variety of reasons, mainly related to the procedures used to calculate the CDRP figures. 3 The Metropolitan police and City of London forces introduced the principles of the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) in April 2002. Broadly the NCRS had the effect of increasing the number of crimes recorded by the police. This has impacted particularly in violent crime. Therefore, following the introduction of the standard, numbers of recorded crimes are not directly comparable with previous years. 4 Heathrow was added to the CDRP series from April 2001, and is currently un-assigned to a family.