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Miss Quennell
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the figure of true crime compares with that of detected crime for the past five years.
Miss Bacon
The best available estimates of true crime and of detected crime are the number of indictable offences known to the police and the number of such offences cleared up. The figures are as follows:
| Year | Number of indictable offences known to the police | Number of indictable cleared up | Column (3) expressed as a percentage of column(2) | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| 1960 | … | 743,713 | 330,251 | 44·4 |
| 1961 | … | 806,900 | 361,467 | 44·8 |
| 1962 | … | 896,424 | 393,646 | 43·9 |
| 1963 | … | 978,076 | 421,942 | 43·1 |
| 1964 | … | 1,067,963 | 422,787 | 39·6 |