Crime Spotlight Summary

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Crime Breakdown (24/11/2024) 

  • Violence and sexual offences (ranked by total crimes in the last year): 
    1. Birmingham Ladywood (13608)
    2. Cities of London and Westminster (10671)
    3. Leeds South (10645)
    4. Liverpool Riverside (10401)
    5. Blackpool South (10277)
    6. Bradford West (10105)
    7. Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (9511)
    8. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (9455)
    9. Derby South (8733)
    10. Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (8448)
  • Anti-social behaviour: 
    1. Cities of London and Westminster (9549)
    2. Blackpool South (8202)
    3. Holborn and St Pancras (6973)
    4. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (6944)
    5. Preston (6768)
    6. Tottenham (5700)
    7. Bethnal Green and Stepney (5552)
    8. Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (5148)
    9. Islington North (4981)
    10. Kensington and bayswater (4929)
  • Drugs: 
    1. Liverpool Riverside (3945)
    2. Cities of London and Westminster (2137)
    3. Nottingham East (1227)
    4. Birmingham Ladywood (1190)
    5. Holborn and St Pancras (1168)
    6. Knowsley (1082)
    7. Leeds South (1068)
    8. Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (1067)
    9. Kensington and bayswater (1018)
    10. Bradford West (1006)
  • Possession of weapons: 
    1. Crawley (878)
    2. Birmingham Ladywood (799)
    3. Nottingham East (414)
    4. Walsall and Bloxwich (373)
    5. Birmingham Perry Barr (356)
    6. Blackpool South (336)
    7. Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North (332)
    8. Cities of London and Westminster (331)
    9. Birmingham Erdington (320)
    10. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (316)
  • Criminal damage and arson: 
    1. Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (2952)
    2. Birmingham Ladywood (2441)
    3. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (2272)
    4. Leeds South (2250)
    5. Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (2217)
    6. Leicester West (2209)
    7. Liverpool Riverside (2135)
    8. Cities of London and Westminster (2107)
    9. Stockton North (2025)
    10. Blackpool South (2005)
  • Robbery (25/11/2024): 
    1. Cities of London and Westminster (3244)
    2. Birmingham Ladywood (1588)
    3. Holborn and St Pancras (1315)
    4. Hackney South and Shoreditch (1027)
    5. Bermondsey and Old Southwark (918)
    6. Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (892)
    7. Croydon West (881)
    8. Tottenham (852)
    9. Kensington and Bayswater (687)
    10. Islington South and Finsbury (677)
  • Public order: 
    1. Cities of London and Westminster (3939)
    2. Liverpool Riverside (3442)
    3. Leicester South (2829)
    4. Leeds South (2588)
    5. Birmingham Ladywood (2534)
    6. Bradford West (2454)
    7. Derby South (2312)
    8. Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (2301)
    9. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (2208)
    10. Bristol Central (2196)


Shoplifting (27/11/2024)

  • Breakdown (ranked by total crimes in the last year): 
    1. Cities of London and Westminster (6249)
    2. Leeds Central and Headingley (3638)
    3. Cardiff South and Penarth (3175)
    4. Nottingham East (3099)
    5. Doncaster Central (3055)
    6. Cambridge (2844)
    7. Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West (2711)
    8. Liverpool Riverside (2676)
    9. Birmingham Ladywood (2673)
    10. Lincoln (2624)
  • Increases in shoplifting since 2022:
    • The top three constituencies for most shoplifting offences:
      • Cities of London and Westminster (+36.1%)
      • Leeds Central and Headingley (+32.8%)
      • Cardiff South and Penarth (+42.6%)
    • The largest increase of constituencies in the top ten:
      • Cambridge (+55.6%)
    • Top ten constituencies by largest increase in shoplifting: 
      1. Arundel and South Downs (+79.3%)
      2. Sheffield Hallam (+73.7%)
      3. South Cambridgeshire (+72.4%)
      4. Eastbourne (+71.7%)
      5. St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire (+71.2%)
      6. South Derbyshire (+71%)
      7. Milton Keynes North (+70.9%)
      8. Hampstead and Highgate (+70%)
      9. Blaydon and Consett (+69.8%)
      10. Croydon East (+68.2%)


Bike theft (01/12/2024)

  • Breakdown (ranked by total crimes in the last year): 
    1. Cambridge (1194)
    2. Cities of London and Westminster (1034)
    3. Cardiff South and Penarth (860)
    4. York Central (811)
    5. Oxford East (792)
    6. Hackney South and Shoreditch (775)
    7. Bristol Central (651)
    8. Oxford West and Abingdon (621)
    9. Bethnal Green and Stepney (600)
    10. Hammersmith and Chiswick (592)


Court Spotlight (15/12/2024, Updates Daily)

  • Crown Courts (ranked by total unused courtrooms as of 15/12/2024):
    1. Central Criminal Court (9 - 38%)
    2. Maidstone (5 - 38%)
    3. Snaresbrook (5 - 25%)
    4. Preston (4 - 33%)
    5. Bristol (3 - 30%)
    6. Croydon (3 - 30%)
    7. Sheffield (3 - 27%)
    8. Southwark (3 - 17%)
    9. Winchester (3 - 33%)
    10. Basildon (2 - 33%)
  • Ranked by percentage of unused courtrooms (as of 15/12/2024):
    1. Central Criminal Court (38%)
    2. Maidstone (38%)
    3. Preston (33%)
    4. Winchester (33%)
    5. Basildon (33%)
    6. Bristol (30%)
    7. Croydon (30%)
    8. Sheffield (27%)
    9. Snaresbrook (25%)
    10. Southwark (17%)