HC Deb 26 October 1972 vol 843 c370W
Mr. Fowler

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the detection rate in the Metropolitan Police area for burglaries from dwellings and walk-in thefts from dwellings, respectively.

Mr. Carlisle

The numbers of offences of burglary, and theft in a dwelling, cleared up in 1971, expressed as percentages of the offences recorded in that year are as follows:

Burglary (and aggravated burglary) in a dwelling:

per cent.
Forcible entries 19.4
Other entries (walk-in) 10.1
Theft in a dwelling (other than from a meter) 18.4