§ Sir C. Osborneasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes of violence were known to the police in 1965 to the latest convenient date; and what were the corresponding figures for each of the last five years.
§ Miss BaconThe number of indictable offences of violence against the person known to the police in the first six months of 1965 was 12,269. The corresponding figures for the first six months of each of the five previous years were 10,971 in 1964, 8,889 in 1963, 8,256 in 1962, 8,481 in 1961 and 7,538 in 1960.