Recorded Crime in Chard - Chard & Ilminster News

Local police force: Avon & Somerset
Crime figures for CRDP area South Somerset.
Population: 158,800
Number of households: 69,700

Recorded crime for seven key offences

	2008-09	2009-10	% Change
Violence against the person	1,847	1,788	-3.19
Sexual offences	106	99	-6.6
Robbery	38	34	0
Burglary of a dwelling	436	290	-33.49
Theft of a vehicle	208	187	-10.1
Theft from a vehicle	741	512	-30.9
Interfering with a vehicle	113	101	-10.62

Reported crime per 1,000 population 2009-10

	Local	UK	Difference
Violence against the person	11.26	15.73	-4.47
Sexual offences	0.62	0.99	-0.37
Robbery	0.21	1.37	-1.16
Burglary of a dwelling	1.83	4.93	-3.1
Theft of a vehicle	1.18	2.16	-0.98
Theft from a vehicle	3.22	6.19	-2.97
Interfering with a vehicle	0.64	0.7	-0.06

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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