Shropshire getting safer, statistics say
Monday 30th May 2011, 8:27PM BST.
People in Shropshire still need to be vigilant about crimes occurring in their area, even though statistics show the county is getting safer.
This is according to Councillor Miles Kenny, chairman of the Shropshire Policing Board, who warned people to be on their guard despite a drop in recorded crime over the year.
“Shropshire continues to be a low crime area but this does not mean that Shropshire is a no crime area,” he said.
“People should continue to be vigilant and take steps to prevent opportunist crimes such as locking their sheds, not leaving valuables in view in their cars and securing their bikes when unattended.”
For the year ending March 31, 2011, the total number of crimes in the county stood at 13,501 —- down from 16,070 in 2008/09.
Confidence in the police has also increased from 48 per cent to 58 per cent in the last two years. Domestic burglaries were reduced from 688 to 526, while the number of incidents of serious violence against a person was cut from 192 to 166.
The Shropshire Policing Board praised Territorial Commander Peter Lightwood and his team for their year-end performance. The organisation highlighted a targeted action to tackle GHB drug use in Oswestry as one deserving of particular praise.
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What a load of self praise, The crime rate is down because the public no longer report crimes as they know that the police are not interested.
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That’s good news for us all so why do we need so many Police patrolling the streets? It’s about time we cut them down to suit the size of the problem. I can’t move for them on every corner. I have called the 0300 number on numerous occasions only to be kept waiting for 8- 10 mins. ‘Violence against the person was cut’…. ??? Cut/ how? Lets not let these ‘figures’ allow complacency. There’s tons of crime outthere. You got to get it recorded first. Police numbers are low. This kind of reporting just shoots themselves in the foot. Let every phonecall of a crime be reported as a figure. Then we will know the true extent.
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I don’t believe this, the reason being that I know for a fact that there is such appathy in my area that people do not report many of the crimes to the police because they know that little or no action will be taken. I have had four crimes in the last two years that I have not reported to the police because of the action or none action of the police over the last twenty or so years.
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If you don’t report a crime, how does anyone know it’s happened?
Have you spotted the link between unreported crime, crime statistics and budget cuts yet? Who’s responsible: the authorities or the apathetic public for failing to feed the information into the system?
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