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Distraction burglary: recorded crime data
— online supplement to HOSB 12/06 | | Corporate Author | Research Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office |
| Publisher | Home Office, London, 25 January 2007 |
| Pages | 6 pp |
| Source | Available only through the Home Office RDS website at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb1206su... |
| Keywords | Crime ; Elder abuse ; Statistics [data] ; England. |
| Annotation | Distraction burglary, often called 'bogus calling' or 'burglary artifice' is a crime primarily targeted at vulnerable older people. Offenders may pose as officials, such as council workers, police officers and utility workers, or pretend to be a person in urgent need of help, in order to gain access to homes. Once inside the victim is distracted and the burglary is committed. This is the second report on distraction burglary published by the Home Office. The first report was published as an online supplement to Home Office Statistical Bulletin 14/04 in October 2004. In 2005/06, distraction burglary comprised 4% of all burglaries, with the highest rates in London (10 per 10,000 households), followed by Leicester, Northamptonshire, and South Yorkshire (9 per 10,000 households); and Surrey and Hertfordshire (8 per 10,000 households). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080814002 E |
| Classmark | TWA: QNT: 6C: 82 * |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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