This month's report for June 2011 to August 2011
shows performance for North Yorkshire Police (NYP) is ranked 1st in England and its Most Similar Forces (MSF). Positive performance where NYP is ranked 1st across categories such as All Crime, Violence against person, Wounding, Robbery, Serious Acquisitive Crime, Theft from a Vehicle and Criminal Damage highlights only some of the achievements NYP has made this year to date. Nationally, NYP sits well below the average crime rate with a rate of 12.559 crimes per 1000 residents, this compares to the national average of 17.008 crimes per 1000 residents.
Detection rates also continue to improve. For the latest 12 month rolling period (end August 2011) NYP's detection rate was above the national average (29.52%) with a rate of 32.99%. When comparing to its MSF, NYP is currently ranked 1st amongst a host of categories including All Crime, Most Serious Violence, Violence Against the Person, Assault with less serious injury, Wounding, Robbery, Theft of a cycle, Theft other than vehicle and Criminal damage.
In the All Crime group Craven is second only to Lancashire Ribble Valley with our crimes per 1000 population at 8.915.
Detection rates also continue to improve. For the latest 12 month rolling period (end August 2011) NYP's detection rate was above the national average (29.52%) with a rate of 32.99%. When comparing to its MSF, NYP is currently ranked 1st amongst a host of categories including All Crime, Most Serious Violence, Violence Against the Person, Assault with less serious injury, Wounding, Robbery, Theft of a cycle, Theft other than vehicle and Criminal damage.
In the All Crime group Craven is second only to Lancashire Ribble Valley with our crimes per 1000 population at 8.915.
Postion Crime Type Victim per 1000/Pop
5th Robbery 0.018
8th Sexual Offences 0.180
8th Serious Sexual Offences 0.144
12th Drugs 0.920
2nd Serious Acquisitive Crime 0.902
1st Most Serious Violence 0.018
1st Violence against the Person 1.245
1st Assault with Less Serious Injury 0.577
1st Wounding (serious and other) 0.596
1st Domestic Burglary 0.409
11th Non Domestic Burglary 1.101
7th Shoplifting 0.830
4th Theft From Motor Vehicle 0.559
3rd Theft of Motor Vehicles 0.144
1st Theft of Pedal Cycles 0.126
5th Theft and Handling 2.779
1st Criminal damage 1.353
It is pretty impressive to have come second when some of our most similar districts show 0 for some of the crime groups. As I have pointed out before Drugs offences normally show police activity so oddly the worse we do the more active we have been. Shoplifting is also one of those groups which can be disproportionately effected by the activity of store detectives.
Sexual Offences require further review although the figures are small it would be worth looking again.
Clearly the area for closer scrutiny is Burglary of Sheds, Garages and outbuildings (non domestic Burglary) and we will be working hard to reduce this even further.
Overall though a healthy result for Craven.
