Category: Community Safety

Residents safety concerns

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These charts show the issues that residents in Buckinghamshire are most concerned about in relation to crime and community safety.

Doorstep Crime

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This chart shows the number of Trading Standards interventions involving doorstep crime, typically cold callers to victims’ front doors.

Scam calls blocked

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This chart shows the number of recent scam calls blocked in Buckinghamshire using a blocker device. These devices are issued by Trading Standards to vulnerable people to protect them from receiving scam calls.

Domestic Abuse

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This data shows the number of recent incidents attended by Thames Valley Police which have been flagged as being related to domestic abuse in Buckinghamshire. The nature of the domestic setting means many incidents are unseen and may go unreported.

Feeling Safe

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This chart shows the extent to which residents of Buckinghamshire feel safe in certain situations, as reported via the Residents Community Safety Survey.

Vehicle Crime

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This chart shows the number of recorded vehicle crimes in Buckinghamshire. Vehicle crime includes the theft of a vehicle, theft from a vehicle and damage to a vehicle.

Violent Crimes & Sexual Offences

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This chart shows the number of recorded violent crimes and sexual offences in Buckinghamshire. Violent crime and sexual offences is a broad crime type that includes ‘Violence Without Injury’ and ‘Violence With Injury’, as well as all categories of sexual offence.

Drug Crime

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This chart shows the number of recorded drug crimes in Buckinghamshire. Drug crime is a crime type that includes possession of a controlled drug, possession with intent to supply, supply of a controlled drug and production of a controlled drug.

Burglary

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This chart shows the number of recorded burglary offences in Buckinghamshire. Burglary is the illegal entering of a building in order to commit a crime, usually theft.