Crime Stats
Setting the scene
The crime landscape is growing every year in the UK and police resources are reducing, our policing policy has changed from proactive to reactive, since 2010 over 22,000 officers have left the force, we currently have 122,404 officers for the whole of the UK, the current population is 66.5 million.
12%
increase in knife crime
14%
increase in Murders
17%
increase in Robbery
21%
increase in Rape
13%
increase in Rural crime
Cyber crime
Average cost of cyber crime to the UK each year
Global cost of cyber crime in 2017
Percentage of network intrusions are the result of compromised usernames and passwords