§ Mr. Viantasked the Home Secretary whether he will state the number of housebreaking offences reported in the borough of Willesden, and the number of convictions during the years 1935, 1936, 1937, and during the last 10 months?
§ Sir S. HoareBefore the middle of 1937 the statistics of crimes in the Metropolitan Police District were not subdivided into figures for each of the local government areas: so I cannot give figures for Willesden in respect of earlier years. During the last 12 months there have been in Willesden 190 cases of housebreaking (including burglary) a number of them being trifling crimes committed by juveniles and up to the present the offender has been identified in 16 of these cases.