Business theft in Leicester
Running a business is hard work and there's nothing worse than having that livelihood threatened or taken away from you through crime.
Running a business is hard work and there's nothing worse than having that livelihood threatened or taken away from you through crime.
Wakefield Central is an area right in the heart of Wakefield, which is a city in North West Yorkshire. The area is south of Leeds and east of Huddersfield. Official figures state that 723 crimes took place and were reported in the Wakefield Central part of the city in November 2016. Most of these occurred to the north-east of the centre of Wakefield.
Liverpool’s long history with gun crime is back in the headlines thanks to an upturn in incidents, including three murders. The return of the infamous “Triggerpool” nickname (coined in 2005-6, when Merseyside as a whole recorded 124 shootings) shows that the public perception is that Liverpool is returning to its darkest and most violent days.
Coventry isn’t just a city, it’s a metropolitan borough. Situated in the West Midlands, it is tucked into the far eastern part of the county. Its history stretches back nearly 1,000 years, back to a time when the population was far lower than the 337,000 or so people who live there today.
Bristol is a historic seaport but also a vibrant and fast developing city with a global reputation. Bristol was named as the best place to live in the UK (Sunday Times), in 2014, and in 2015 it was European Green Capital. Not surprisingly, this beautiful place has a tourism economy worth £2.3bn, sustaining over 27,000 jobs.
Leicester is a university city located in the East Midlands. It is home to De Montfort University among others, and is situated out to the north-east of Birmingham, and to the west of Peterborough.
The city of Leeds in West Yorkshire is home to three universities; University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Trinity University.
It is said that a man’s home is his castle which is why the first thing often considered when moving to a new city or town, such as Liverpool, is how crime will affect one’s livelihood. Burglary is considered by many to be one of the more personal attacks as it finds a stranger within your most intimate environment.
Liverpool is a well-known city in Merseyside. The city’s population is just shy of half-a-million people. There are numerous neighbourhoods in the area, so accessing crime figures for Liverpool will depend on which neighbourhood you look at.
With a population reaching around 449,000 people, Bristol is eighth in the top ten of cities in the UK with the biggest populations. Not too far from the border with Wales and qualifying as a county too, Bristol sits in the south-west of England.
The summer of 2011 will long be remembered for the scenes of devastation and chaos that swept the nation's capital, with rioting and looting also spreading to other metropolitan areas across the UK.
Car crime is serious business. In November 2016, UK Crime Stats noted that there were 37,516 vehicle crimes in England and Wales and a further 34,969 in December 2016.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, London is ranked number one in the UK for burglary, featuring 16 of the nation's top 20 hotspots, according to recent research carried out by Moneysupermarket.
Wakefield is currently experiencing something of a crime wave and the target is scrap metal.
A simple internet search of the term "Leeds burglaries" turns up a host of news articles about the rising numbers of house burglaries in West Yorkshire - something the news site Vice called an "epidemic" in March 2016. Indeed, according to UK police data reviewed in 2016, Leeds has the highest number of burglaries per capita of any significant police force in the country.