Recorded Crime in Lancaster - Lancaster And Morecambe Citizen

Local police force: Lancashire
Crime figures for CRDP area Lancaster.
Population: 139,500
Number of households: 63,900

Recorded crime for seven key offences

	2008-09	2009-10	% Change
Violence against the person	1,928	2,151	11.57
Sexual offences	99	122	23.23
Robbery	55	59	7.27
Burglary of a dwelling	413	361	-12.59
Theft of a vehicle	194	191	-1.55
Theft from a vehicle	546	589	7.88
Interfering with a vehicle	150	104	-30.67

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2009-10

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	15.42	15.73	-0.31
Sexual offences	0.87	0.99	-0.12
Robbery	0.42	1.37	-0.95
Burglary of a dwelling	2.59	4.93	-2.34
Theft of a vehicle	1.37	2.16	-0.79
Theft from a vehicle	4.22	6.19	-1.97
Interfering with a vehicle	0.75	0.7	0.05

Key

Graph: Red bar is local crime, black bar is national crime.

Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP): a partnership of police, local councils and other local agencies and organisations tackling crime and disorder in your local area.

The figures shown are a combination of police recorded crime figures and data collected by the British Crime Survey (BCS). All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties, and whether crime-related or not, result in the registration of an incident report by the police. An incident is recorded as a crime if, on the balance of probability, the circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law and there is no credible evidence to the contrary.

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