Crime & Disorder & Drugs Audit 2004 - Violence Against the Person

Broadland Crime and Disorderand Drugs Audit 2004Violence Against the Person1.1 Violence against the personThe Home Office banding ‘Violence against the person’ (VAP) was used. This bandingincludes some 50 offences.1.1.1 Volume and trendsTable 17 gives the overall numbers of VAP offences in Broadland for 4 years, and thepercentage change year-on-year. The split between VAP in a residential domestic contextand other contexts is also given.VAP - Residential Percent changedomestic VAP - non-RD VAP - all year-on-year2000-1 130 223 3532001-2 139 249 388 + 9.92002-3 266 419 685 + 76.52003-4 307 492 799 + 16.6Table 1 Numbers of VAP offences in Broadland and percentage change year-on-year[Source: NC1]VAP offences have increased significantly in each of the 4 years. Only a part of thedramatic increase in 2002-3 is attributable to NCRS. Overall, between the time of the lastaudit (2000-1) and the current audit (2003-4), there has been an overall increase inviolence against the person of 126.3%.1.1.2 Comparative incidenceFig. 20 shows the comparative incidence (rate) of VAP per 1000 population.CDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 220 18.21815.116 14.41412 10.0 9.3107.186420Broadland Norfolk Eastern England & CDRP Most-2003-4 2003-4 2003-4 Wales Family 9 similar2003-4 2003-4 CDRPFamily2003-4Geographic areaFig. 1 Comparative incidence (rate) of VAP per 1000 population[Source: HO4]In spite of the dramatic increases in Broadland, the rate for VAP ...