Recorded Crime in Braintree - Braintree and Witham Times

Local police force: Essex
Crime figures for CRDP area Braintree.
Population: 142,400
Number of households: 60,500

Recorded crime for seven key offences

	2008-09	2009-10	% Change
Violence against the person	1,469	1,225	-16.61
Sexual offences	106	72	-32.08
Robbery	35	35	0
Burglary of a dwelling	248	294	18.55
Theft of a vehicle	167	171	2.4
Theft from a vehicle	553	597	7.96
Interfering with a vehicle	64	53	-17.19

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2009-10

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	8.6	15.73	-7.13
Sexual offences	0.51	0.99	-0.48
Robbery	0.25	1.37	-1.12
Burglary of a dwelling	2.06	4.93	-2.87
Theft of a vehicle	1.2	2.16	-0.96
Theft from a vehicle	4.19	6.19	-2
Interfering with a vehicle	0.37	0.7	-0.33

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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