Recorded Crime in Widnes - Runcorn and Widnes World

Local police force: Cheshire
Crime figures for CRDP area Halton.
Population: 120,000
Number of households: 50,000

Recorded crime for six key offences

	2007-08	2008-09	% Change
Violence against the person	2,392	2,351	-2
Sexual offences	128	103	-20
Robbery	105	125	19
Burglary of a dwelling	581	717	23
Theft of a vehicle	491	424	-14
Theft from a vehicle	794	981	24
Interfering with a vehicle	105	103	-2
BCS comparator

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2008-09

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	20	16	4
Sexual offences	1	1	0
Robbery	1	1	0
Burglary of a dwelling	6	5	1
Theft of a vehicle	4	3	1
Theft from a vehicle	8	7	1
Interfering with a vehicle	1	1	0

Key

Graph: Red bar is local crime, black bar is national crime.

Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP): a partnership of police, local councils and other local agencies and organisations tackling crime and disorder in your local area.

The figures shown are a combination of police recorded crime figures and data collected by the British Crime Survey (BCS). All reports of incidents, whether from victims, witnesses or third parties, and whether crime-related or not, result in the registration of an incident report by the police. An incident is recorded as a crime if, on the balance of probability, the circumstances as reported amount to a crime defined by law and there is no credible evidence to the contrary.

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