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Violent Crime The definitions of violent crime vary, for the strategy it includes all assaults and robberies. In the recorded crime statistics published by the Home Office, ‘Violent crime’ covers a wide range of offences, including around 41 sub-categories. These offences fall into three broad groupings: violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery. Violent crime: assault on a PC, common assaults (excluding on a PC), harassment, other crimes of violence, robbery of business property, robbery of personal property, sexual offences, violence against the person – serious. Violent crime as it is recorded by the police includes robbery, sexual offences and ‘Violence against the person’ offences, such as assault and murder. Most violent crime recorded by the police is low level thuggery that involves little or no physical injury to the victim. You can find out more about violent crime on the Home Office website. Domestic Violence - The current situation We are committed to tackling domestic violence on every front. Victims of domestic violence suffer on many levels - health, housing, education - and lose the freedom to live their lives in the way they wish, and without fear. Although domestic violence is chronically under-reported, research shows that it:
What we’re doing about it Violent crime and domestic violence is one of the Partnership priorities. The target is to reduce violent crime to a rate of no more than 5 per thousand population. These are some of the activities in place to achieve this:
If you have any information relating to any crime, you can ring Crimesoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or visit the Crimestoppers website.
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