{"id":2725,"date":"2024-02-14T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:47:15","slug":"british-mugging-hotspots-in-2023-a-central-london-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/british-mugging-hotspots-in-2023-a-central-london-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"British Mugging hotspots in 2023 – a Central London problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very disturbing article in the Financial Times recently about top Indian businessmen getting mugged in London.\u00a0<\/a> A message that was improbably passed on to the Shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy when he was in New Delhi. Probably not what he thought he was going there to discuss. So I decided to do some research.\u00a0 Using a UKCrimeStats and running a report from the neighbourhoods page<\/a>, I was able to identify which Police neighbourhood across England (except for the Greater Manchester Police area which are still not providing data since June 2019), Wales and NI had the most “theft from the person” in calendar 2024, as measured by thefts per hectare. To further clarify, “Theft from the person<\/em>” means crimes that involve theft directly from the victim (including handbag, wallet, cash, mobile phones) but without the use or threat of physical force.<\/p>\n

And here are the results;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Neighbourhood<\/td>\nPoliceforce<\/td>\nLand Area (Hectares)<\/td>\nTheft From Person per Hectare<\/td>\nTotal in 2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
West End<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n228<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n13117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St James’s<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n343<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n7894<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bloomsbury<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n124<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n1879<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Holborn and Covent Garden<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n111<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n1532<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camden Town<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n831<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Borough and Bankside<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n1181<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hoxton East and Shoreditch<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n842<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Finsbury Park<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n84<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n658<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Colville<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bunhill<\/a><\/td>\nMetropolitan Police Service<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n589<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I have to say, I was shocked by the results. The West End neighbourhood<\/a> of London had an average of 35 such incidents every day in 2023 or a total of 13,117. Unquestionably, there has been a massive growth of this type of crime in the West End, with November and December 2023 registering nearly 2,000 such incidents. But when you look back over time at the monthly totals,\u00a0 you would reckon with a – still high – few hundred (and just a handful during Covid).<\/p>\n

Moreover, London looms largely in the highest results, with only the City Centre South<\/a> in Liverpool and Regency Business<\/a> neighbourhoods in the top 20.<\/p>\n

To reduce the likelihood of getting mugged, here are some useful tips from the London Metropolitan Police<\/a>. In crime matters, prevention is always easier than cure. Meanwhile, we wish the Met well in bringing down these high numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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