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<p>Police recorded crime figures for England and Wales are published quarterly by
the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Annual figures for the years ending June
2014 to June 2017 are included in Table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p><em>Table 1: Police
recorded crime, ONS, year ending June 2014 – year ending June 2017. Taken from ‘Crime
in England and Wales: Bulletin Tables’, </em><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesbulletintables"
target="_blank"><em>https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesbulletintables</em></a></p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Year
Ending</td><td>June 2014</td><td>June 2015</td><td>June 2016</td><td>June 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Total
police recorded crime in England and Wales (inc fraud)</td><td>3,717,089</td><td>4,260,239</td><td>4,577,375</td><td>5,156,928</td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Overall police recorded crime (including fraud) increased by 13% in
the year ending June 2017 compared with the previous year. The ONS points to improvements
to recording practices by forces, expanded offence coverage, an increased willingness
of victims to come forward and report certain crimes like sexual offences and domestic
abuse to the police and genuine increases in some crime categories, especially in
those that are well recorded, as important factors in explaining trends in police
recorded crime.</p><p> </p><p>Crimes traditionally measured by the independent Crime
Survey for England and Wales are down by almost 40% since 2010 and by 70% since their
peak in 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent national crime figures are published by
the Office for National Statistic in ‘Crime in England and Wales: year ending June
2017’ (<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/june2017"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/june2017</a>).</p>
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