Recorded Crime in Widnes - Runcorn and Widnes World

Local police force: Cheshire
Crime figures for CRDP area Halton.
Population: 118,500
Number of households: 50,500

Recorded crime for seven key offences

	2008-09	2009-10	% Change
Violence against the person	2,351	2,077	-11.65
Sexual offences	103	98	-4.85
Robbery	125	105	-16
Burglary of a dwelling	717	601	-16.18
Theft of a vehicle	424	330	-22.17
Theft from a vehicle	981	726	-25.99
Interfering with a vehicle	103	63	-38.83

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2009-10

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	17.53	15.73	1.8
Sexual offences	0.83	0.99	-0.16
Robbery	0.89	1.37	-0.48
Burglary of a dwelling	5.07	4.93	0.14
Theft of a vehicle	2.78	2.16	0.62
Theft from a vehicle	6.13	6.19	-0.06
Interfering with a vehicle	0.53	0.7	-0.17

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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