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| Robberies buck falling crime rate | |
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| Total recorded crime fell slightly in England and Wales in the last part of 2006 - although robberies went up. | Total recorded crime fell slightly in England and Wales in the last part of 2006 - although robberies went up. |
| Statistics released by the Home Office show the number of offences recorded by the police fell by 2% between October and December 2006. | Statistics released by the Home Office show the number of offences recorded by the police fell by 2% between October and December 2006. |
| The police recorded 8% more robberies during the quarter - although violent crime as a whole fell by 2%. | The police recorded 8% more robberies during the quarter - although violent crime as a whole fell by 2%. |
| The British Crime Survey study of public experience says levels remain largely stable, except for vandalism. | The British Crime Survey study of public experience says levels remain largely stable, except for vandalism. |
| Violent crime | |
| Crime figures for England and Wales are complex because the government relies on two separate measures - incidents recorded by the police and the British Crime Survey (BCS), a rolling study of thousands of people. | |
| The BCS is regarded as the more reliable because it includes unreported crimes. | |
| The BCS suggests violent crime remained stable - but recorded crime figures show 4,000 fewer incidents during the last three months of 2006. The greatest falls were in serious violent crime, said the Home Office. | |
| Provisional statistics indicate there was a 16% drop in firearms offences - to 9,513 incidents in 2006 as a whole. While deaths from firearms rose from 53 to 57, serious and slight firearms injuries fell by 12% and 28% respectively. | |
| Victim risk | |
| Overall, the BCS suggests crime remained stable at just above 11 million offences in 2006. | |
| The risk of being a victim of crime stood at 24%, a marginal increase on the previous year. | |
| Thefts from cars also remained stable, but vandalism rose by 11% according to the BCS. | |
| Crimes recorded by the police indicated burglaries fell by 3%, vehicle thefts by 3% and violent crime by 2% while robberies rose by 8% and drug offences by 3%. |