§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers of burglaries and cases of criminal damage notified to west Yorkshire metropolitan police force for each year since 1978, together with the detection rate for each category over the same period of time.
§ Mr. MayhewInformation on the number of recorded offences of burglary and criminal damage in west Yorkshire is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table 2.5 of the volume for 1981, Cmnd. 8668. Information for 1982 was published on 14 March 1983 in table 6 of Home Office "Statistical Bulletin No. 3/83". The corresponding clear-up rates for 1978–82 are given in the following table.
Clear-up rates for recorded offences of burglary and criminal damage West Yorkshire Percentages Year Burglary Criminal damage* 1978 48 32 1979† 31 24 1980‡ 40 28 1981‡ 40 27 1982‡ 42 27 * Excluding "other criminal damage" value £20 and under. † Clear-up rates were lower in 1979 due to a change in the local recording procedure from 1 January 1979. ‡ Figures for 1980, 1981 and 1982 are not directly comparable with those for previous years because of changes made by new counting rules which were introduced at the beginning of 1980 to improve the consistency of recording.
§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report a table listing the number of cases reported to the west Yorkshire metropolitan police force for each category of crimes of violence against the person in each year since 1978, together with the detection rate for each category over the same period of time.
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§ Mr. MayhewDetailed information on notifiable offences of violence against the person recorded by the police in west Yorkshire is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales"—table S.3.1. in supplementary tables 1981, Volume 3. Corresponding information for 1982—to be published in the volume for 1982—is given in table 1. The clear-up rates for the main types of offences of violence against the person are given in table 2.
Table 1. Notifiable offences of violence against the person recorded by the police West Yorkshire, 1982 Offence Number of offences Homicide 30 Attempted murder 4 Threat or conspiracy to murder 42 Causing death by reckless driving 19 Wounding or other act endangering life 287 More serious offences 382 Other wounding, etc. 5,198 Assault 2 Procuring illegal abortion 1 Concealment of birth 2 Less serious offences 5,203 Total violence against the person 5,585
Table 2. Clear-up rates for notifiable offences of violence against the person recorded by the police West Yorkshire Percentages Offence* 1978 1979† 1980 1981 1982 Homicide 93 81 88 123‡ 97 Other more serious offences 86 75 88 86 74 Less serious offences 82 67 78 75 76 Total violence against the person 82 67 79 76 76 * The main types of offence only because recorded numbers of individual offences are small. † Clear-up rates were lower in 1979 due to a change in the local recording procedure from 1 January 1979. ‡ Exceeds 100 per cent. as offences cleared up in the year may have been recorded in an earlier year.