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Vandalism: South Yorkshire

Volume 474: debated on Wednesday 26 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions there were for vandalism in (i) Barnsley East and Mexborough constituency, (ii) Barnsley Metropolitan borough and (iii) Doncaster metropolitan borough in each year since 2002. (195760)

The arrests collection undertaken by the Ministry of Justice provides data on persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences), by age group, gender, ethnicity, and main offence group. Information is given in table 1 for South Yorkshire police force area for the number of persons arrested for offences within the main offence group ‘criminal damage’.

Table 1: Number of persons arrested for recorded crime (notifiable offences) of criminal damage1 in South Yorkshire police force area, by period

Period

Total

2001-02

3,523

2002-03

3,937

2003-04

4,138

2004-05

4,882

2005-06

4,936

1 Includes indictable offences for criminal damage and summary offences of criminal damage, £5,000 or less.

Note:

Every effort is made to ensure that figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Data for the same area showing the number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty of criminal damage, which includes cases involving vandalism, are given in the following table.

Data are not available at parliamentary constituency or metropolitan borough level and cases involving vandalism cannot be separately identified from the arrests and court proceedings data held by my Department.

Data for the same area showing the number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty of criminal damage, which includes cases involving vandalism, are given in the following table.

Data are not available at parliamentary constituency or metropolitan borough level and cases involving vandalism cannot be separately identified from the arrests and court proceedings data held by my Department.

Table 2: Number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts of criminal damage1 in South Yorkshire police force area, 2002-062, 3

Proceeded against

Found guilty

2002

1,765

1,121

2003

1,876

1,164

2004

1,800

1,242

2005

1,831

1,353

2006

1,700

1,251

1 Includes indictable offences for criminal damage and summary offences of criminal damage, £5,000 or less, and in addition offences under section 19 of the Allotments Act 1922.

2 These data are on the principal offence basis.

3 Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.