§ Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the Home Secretary the number of cases of shop raids and bag-snatching reported to the police in the Metropolitan area in each of the past five yeas?
§ Mr. SHORTFigures for each of the past five years are not separately available. It would involve much labour to obtain them, but the figures for 1925 and 1929 have been specially collected and are as follow: In 1925 135 shop raids and 66 cases of bag-snatching; in 1929, 230 shop raids and 127 cases of bag-snatching.