Crime Figures Latest (September 2008)

Overall there was a fall of 32% in reported crimes in Hove and a marked decline in violent crime. To contact your local police officers using the internet visit www.sussex.police.uk and find ‘your local officer section’. Then put in your post code.

Local Priority Setting is a new initiative from the police force who want local residents to decide the three neighbourhood policing priorities they want.

Get in contact if you would like to be involved in the process, or come to one of Goldsmid’s local action team meetings to get your voice heard on local policing issues.  

A snapshot of crime in 2006-07 from the Government's British Crime Survey shows the following significant crime statistics from their most recent research, Crime in England and Wales 2006-2007:

• The risk of being a victim of crime is 24% - significantly lower than the 40% recorded in 1995
• Crime has fallen by 42% since 1995, meaning that 8.4 million fewer crimes took place during that time than would have had rates never fallen
• Domestic burglary and all vehicle thefts have fallen by huge percentages (59% and 61% respectively) since 1995
• Crime is down in most categories
  

The actual figures for Brighton & Hove (taken from the Sussex Police website) are here and can be filtered down to ward level.

For further information please email me at melanie.davis@brighton-hove.gov.uk.