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Highlands region sees 6.6% drop in crimes



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Published Date: 30 August 2008
By JOHN ROSS
POLICE in the Highlands and Islands took drugs worth £1 million off the streets last year, the Chief Constable, Ian Latimer, revealed yesterday.
Presenting the annual public performance report of Northern Constabulary, Mr Latimer said that the region continues to have the lowest levels of recorded crime in Scotland.

He said that during 2007-8 there were 610 crimes per 10,000 of the population in the force area, compared with the Scottish average of 819. The detection rate in the Highlands and Islands was 63 per cent, against 47 per cent nationally.

This, he said, meant there were 1,142 fewer victims of crime in the region than last year, a drop of 6.6 per cent.

Mr Latimer also said that drops in attempted murder fell (by 44.1 per cent); assaults (down 30.2 per cent); crimes of indecency (down 15.8 per cent); non-sexual crimes against people (down 24.5 per cent) and vandalism (down 6.3 per cent).





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  • Last Updated: 29 August 2008 10:26 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

truthsleuth,

30/08/2008 00:24:24
Burglars can't afford the petrol.
2

Scullion,

Canada 30/08/2008 03:51:56
Probably because finding the culprit was too easy; if a MacDonald had his house burgled, you can bet it was by a Campbell.
3

Boy Wonder,

30/08/2008 07:40:27
#2. Are you saying all Campbells are crooks?? Where's your evidence??
4

Jacqueline Hyde ,

On the shelf 30/08/2008 07:50:22
I'm not surprised at the drop in recorded crime. If they keep closing police stations and keep the bobbies off the beat, just who, exactly, is going to record the crimes?
5

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 30/08/2008 07:55:48
Nothing left to steal.
6

donald anderson it's me,

weegieland 30/08/2008 07:57:12
"Are you saying all Campbells are crooks?? Where's your evidence??"
Alasdair Campbell.
7

Boy Wonder,

30/08/2008 08:27:41
That's ONE!!!

 

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