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Assaults

Volume 450: debated on Thursday 12 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many assaults there have been within each local government authority area of Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. (89284)

The PSNI does not record information by local government authority. Details of assaults by district command unit are shown in the following table.

Assaults by district command unit

DCU

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Antrim

707

506

611

649

554

Ards

739

762

849

755

798

East Belfast

826

1,010

1,058

923

918

North Belfast

1,814

1,651

1,694

1,596

1,721

South Belfast

2,379

2,280

2,291

2,119

2,356

West Belfast

1,068

1,080

1,098

1,165

1,198

Carrickfergus

384

358

393

371

403

Castlereagh

468

447

462

433

414

Larne

352

351

344

319

347

Lisburn

1,195

1,256

1,494

1,527

1,488

Newtownabbey

805

778

905

838

934

North Down

667

803

850

863

907

Armagh

486

525

493

484

489

Banbridge

533

571

556

555

578

Ballymena

634

736

837

936

849

Ballymoney

151

224

187

252

240

Coleraine

696

872

975

1,016

1,038

Cookstown

438

409

466

499

444

Craigavon

880

1,034

1,257

1,308

1,243

Dungannon and South Tyrone

455

453

507

495

547

Down

659

802

759

724

882

Fermanagh

382

447

425

443

567

Foyle

1,813

1,725

1,733

1,796

1,944

Limavady

414

479

486

570

601

Magherafelt

303

355

432

374

444

Moyle

170

212

192

203

189

Newry and Mourne

720

910

911

945

1,011

Omagh

606

664

733

664

650

Strabane

673

622

670

632

517

Northern Ireland

21,419

22,322

23,668

23,454

24,271

Source:Central Statistics Unit, PSNI.