The table contains information on the percentages of police time and budget spent on dealing with acquisitive crimes, drugs offences, and non-crime incidents related to prostitution in 2007-08. It should be noted that prostitution is not in itself a crime.
Some incidences of other crime types (such as violence against the person) may be related to either sex work or drugs; time spent on these is not recorded separately, so it is not possible to give an estimate of time and budget spent upon them.
(a) percentage of time spent on dealing with2: (b) percentage of budget spent on3: (i) Acquisitive crimes4 10.5 11.8 (ii) Prostitution-related incidents 0.1 0.1 (iii) Drugs offences 2.5 3.1 1 Crime prevention activity is excluded from these figures, as it is not possible to break this activity down by the crime prevented. 2 Figures in column (a) exclude data from Staffordshire, which are not available. 3 Figures in column (b) exclude data from Essex, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Thames Valley, which are not available. 4 Acquisitive crime includes burglary from a dwelling, burglary from commercial or other premises, robbery, theft of or from a motor vehicle, and other theft.