HC Deb 14 December 1965 vol 722 cc255-6W
Miss Quennell

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the figure of true crime compares with that of detected crime for the past five years.

Miss Bacon

The best available estimates of true crime and of detected crime are the number of indictable offences known to the police and the number of such offences cleared up. The figures are as follows:

Year Number of indictable offences known to the police Number of indictable cleared up Column (3) expressed as a percentage of column(2)
(1) (2) (3) (4)
1960 743,713 330,251 44.4
1961 806,900 361,467 44.8
1962 896,424 393,646 43.9
1963 978,076 421,942 43.1
1964 1,067,963 422,787 39.6