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Violent Crime

Volume 450: debated on Wednesday 25 October 2006

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David Simpson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many violent crimes in which the victim’s occupation or the victim type was given as taxi driver have been carried out in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) district command unit and (b) council area.

Paul Goggins: PSNI have advised the following breakdown of violent crime where the victim was a taxi driver.

As district command unit and council area are coterminous the statistics are outlined only by district command unit and included a Belfast total.

Violent crime recorded by the police1 where the victim was a taxi driver2

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

Antrim

6

3

8

Ards

2

2

5

Armagh

0

2

0

Ballymena

3

7

3

Ballymoney

0

0

0

Banbridge

2

1

2

Carrickfergus

1

0

2

Castlereagh

0

2

1

Coleraine

5

10

13

Cookstown

1

1

1

Craigavon

8

14

14

Down

0

1

1

Dungannon and South Tyrone

5

2

9

Fermanagh

2

5

1

Foyle

6

9

15

Larne

3

1

1

Limavady

2

1

1

Lisburn

11

8

8

Magherafelt

3

0

2

Moyle

0

0

0

Newry and Mourne

3

7

11

Newtownabbey

0

0

4

North Down

1

1

5

Omagh

4

4

1

Strabane

2

3

8

East Belfast

4

2

7

North Belfast

10

9

11

South Belfast

3

4

5

West Belfast

2

3

3

Belfast total

19

18

26

Northern Ireland

89

102

142

1 Violent crime includes offences against the person, sexual offences and robbery.

2 Figures are based on the victim type or victim occupation being categorised as a taxi or mini cab driver.

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