All done. Kent Police however is still far behind on catching up with missing data. Officially, the changelog says that they are only missing ASB data from November 2018 due to a change in IT systems. But it seems to go much deeper than that. In a typical month, Kent would report 20k crime and […]

I’ve looked at this using postcode sectors – a small unit and probably the most relevant. This is something you can easily query with a ukcrimestats login. Here are the top 10 – I knew Cambridge was bad, but not that bad ! Rank Postcode Sectors Area Bike Theft Total 1 CB1 2 Cambridge (Central  […]

This is a unique feature of ukcrimestats – you can query the land registry data covering England and Wales and answer questions like this with a login. Here are the top 10; Jan to Dec 2018 Postcode Sector Region Total Period EX34 8 Exeter 170 W6 0 Hammersmith and Fulham 159 IP27 9 Forest Heath […]

The answer according to the Land Registry data, which you can query with our website here – is the Anchor Hanover Group who have taken ownership fo 1870 properties between December 2018 and February 2019 alone. AHG have a line in retirement homes according to their website. After AHG, it’s Torus62 (me neither, but they […]

A good piece in the BBC here recently – Crime figures: Do the police know how much there really is? I’m always at pains to stress the limitations of crime data when people phone/email me – as they frequently do. I even republished a chapter by Nick Ross, formerly of Crimewatch from his excellent book, […]

About once a week, somebody emails me wanting to place an infographic on our website about crime statistics and security solutions to drive traffic to their webiste and push their product at no cost to themselves. Nothing commercially wrong with that. And I would go further, crime preventative measures should in general be much more […]