Crime & Disorder & Drugs Audit 2004 - Executive Summary

Broadland Crime and Disorderand Drugs Audit 2004Executive SummaryCDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 11 Executive SummaryThe executive summary is divided into, first, a summary of findings and, second, astatement of emergent priorities and recommendations, for crime and disorder, and thenfor drugs and alcohol.Please note that 1998 ward boundaries are used throughout this report for the definition ofsub-district geographic areas. For a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of themethodology used in the Audit, please refer to Section 2.3.1.1 Summary of findings – crime and disorder1.1.1 Crime - volume and trendsIn 2003-4, there were 5,221 recorded crimes in the area of Broadland Community SafetyPartnership (i.e. Broadland Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, or CDRP). Thisrepresents an increase of 25.3% compared to the time of the last audit (2000-1).In the 4 years to April 2004, the most commonly-occurring crime types in Broadland were,in descending order, ‘Theft other’ (of which 14.6% was shoplifting), ‘Criminal damage’,‘Theft from motor vehicle’, ‘Violence against the person’ (of which 4.3% in 2003-4 wasmore serious violence), ‘Burglary non-dwelling’, ‘Crime other’, ‘Burglary dwelling’ and‘Theft of motor vehicle’. The categories ‘Drugs offences’, ‘Sexual offences’, and ‘Robbery’were not volume crimes in Broadland.The types of crime where there have been the biggest increases are violence against theperson (up 126.3%) and criminal damage (up ...