Sexual Offences
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) rapes and (b) other sexual offences were reported to police in (i) Herefordshire and (ii) each neighbouring area in each of the last five years; and what the rate of (A) rape and (B) other sexual offences per thousand population was in each of those years.
Answered by Jess Phillips
Please see the below tables for the number of rape and other sexual offences recorded by the police and the rate per 1,000 population in Herefordshire and all other Community Safety Partnership (CSP) areas within West Mercia Police Force Area in the last five financial years. Offences where information about the CSP area has not been provided by the force have been assigned to the “West Mercia (CSP Unknown)” field.
Number | Rape Offences | ||||
CSP | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Herefordshire, County of | 161 | 195 | 238 | 215 | 196 |
North Worcestershire | 294 | 225 | 306 | 318 | 243 |
Shropshire | 240 | 251 | 264 | 276 | 239 |
South Worcester | 299 | 243 | 343 | 367 | 280 |
Telford and Wrekin | 232 | 245 | 295 | 302 | 286 |
West Mercia (CSP Unknown) | 11 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 16 |
Rate | Rape Offences, Rate per 1000s population | ||||
CSP | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Herefordshire, County of | 0.86 | 1.05 | 1.27 | 1.14 | 1.04 |
North Worcestershire | 1.03 | 0.78 | 1.06 | 1.10 | 0.84 |
Shropshire | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.81 | 0.84 | 0.73 |
South Worcester | 0.96 | 0.78 | 1.08 | 1.15 | 0.88 |
Telford and Wrekin | 1.27 | 1.34 | 1.59 | 1.60 | 1.51 |
Number | Other Sexual Offences | ||||
CSP | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Herefordshire, County of | 317 | 280 | 410 | 417 | 381 |
North Worcestershire | 410 | 426 | 566 | 558 | 446 |
Shropshire | 466 | 394 | 545 | 521 | 502 |
South Worcester | 519 | 463 | 610 | 616 | 529 |
Telford and Wrekin | 446 | 380 | 404 | 463 | 428 |
West Mercia (CSP Unknown) | 12 | 17 | 39 | 25 | 27 |
Rate | Other Sexual Offences, Rate per 1000s population | ||||
CSP | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Herefordshire, County of | 1.70 | 1.51 | 2.19 | 2.21 | 2.02 |
North Worcestershire | 1.43 | 1.49 | 1.96 | 1.93 | 1.54 |
Shropshire | 1.46 | 1.23 | 1.68 | 1.59 | 1.53 |
South Worcester | 1.66 | 1.48 | 1.93 | 1.93 | 1.65 |
Telford and Wrekin | 2.45 | 2.07 | 2.17 | 2.45 | 2.26 |
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