Crime figures in Cheshire fall by 11%

May 7 2008 Chester Chronicle

CRIME is down, detections are up and public confidence in Cheshire‘s justice system is the highest in the country, according to new figures released last week.

The figures show that the risk of becoming a victim of crime in Cheshire fell dramatically last year, with recorded crime falling by 11.7% compared to the previous year’s figures.

Crime has reduced across many of the priority areas, and fewer people were victims of threatening crime, with the number of such crimes reducing by more than a third compared to the previous year.

People were safer in their homes in Cheshire last year than in the previous year with the number of burglaries falling by almost 13%.

In addition, residents who did fall victim to a burglary had a better chance of some form of redress as officers solved more cases and brought more burglars to justice than in the previous year.

The types of crime that impact on quality of life in communities, vehicle crime and criminal damage, also reduced significantly with reductions in both categories of more than 10%.

Full story in Friday’s Chronicle.