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Crime: Essex

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 8 January 2008

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Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on the trends in crime clear-up rates in (a) Southend and (b) Essex since 1997; and what representations she has received on this issue in each of the last five years. (174066)

Mr. McNulty

The detections figures for Essex police are shown in the following table.

Data for detections in Southend are available only from 2000-01. In April 2006, Southend became part of South Eastern BCU, and separate figures are no longer available.

Financial Year

Force detections

Force detection rate

Force sanction detections1

Force sanction detection rate1

1997

23,943

27

—

—

1998/992

27,542

29

—

—

1999/20003

30,503

30

—

—

2000-01

27,708

26

22,249

21

2001-02

29,567

26

22,827

20

2002-034

37,244

27

22,288

16

2003-04

39,748

28

24,189

17

2004-05

37,034

27

29,382

22

2005-06

40,384

31

34,596

26

2006-07

41,752

33

37,484

29

1 Data for sanction detections are available only from 2000-01. A sanction detection is one which results in a charge or summons, caution, an offence being taken into consideration, a penalty notice for disorder or a cannabis warning. 2 The Home Office Counting Rules for recorded crime changed with effect from April 1998. These brought new offences into the series with varying detection rates. 3 Additional guidance on counting detections was implemented from 1 April 1999. 4 The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Data before and after that date are not directly comparable.

Southend Basic Command Unit (BCU)1

Financial Year

BCU detections

BCU detection rate

BCU sanction2 detections

BCU sanction detection rate

2000-01

4,760

33

4,095

28

2001-02

4,351

32

3,550

26

2002-033

5,592

34

3,195

19

2003-04

5,006

29

3,637

21

2004-05

4,566

27

3,718

22

2005-06

5,237

32

4,235

26

2006-074

8,280

35

7,496

32

1 BCU data are available only from 2001-02. 2 Data for sanction detections are available only from 2000-01. A sanction detection is one which results in a charge or summons, caution, an offence being taken into consideration, a penalty notice for disorder or a cannabis warning. 3 The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced in April 2002. Data before and after that date are not directly comparable. 4 Southend forms part of Essex South Eastern BCU with effect from April 2006, separate figures for Southend are no longer available.