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.
Leeds is in West Yorkshire, and is home to over 750,000 people. The higher population levels in the average city mean it’s not unusual to find a higher incidence of crime there. Leeds is no different in this respect, even though most people are unaffected.
Customers to be left playing hide and seek once again after parcels are left in crazy places. As another Black Friday descends upon us, online shoppers have revealed the weirdest and most perplexing places couriers have left their purchases. From expensive purchases being left in wheelie bins (on bin day, naturally) to gifts being left ...
Fear of crime soars in mothers as they worry about family and home in modern Britain Mothers in the United Kingdom fear crime against their family and property on a daily basis and lose sleep over it. A national security camera company has found that nine-tenths of mothers with children under 16 living at home ...
Any business which uses a CCTV system for security or monitoring purposes needs to be aware of its legal obligations. As a collector of data (the recorded images from a camera system), organisations automatically fall under the provisions of both the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Acts. In the case of the Human Rights Act, the ...
Why? The Home Office reports the average cost of theft is £1,000 (£5,000 when a vehicle is involved) Police budgets are being slashed weekly Local Council CCTV systems are being taken down If CCTV was installed properly as standard – then not only would crime be deterred, but the Police would be able to use ...
It seems amazing in this day and age that owners of CCTV Systems are putting their homes and businesses at risk by not keeping their camera systems working properly. We recently surveyed 300 camera systems as part of our day-to-day repair work to existing systems – and we found that 75% of the systems examined ...
How much do you think CCTV helps our society? We already know that it helps bring protection to our streets and we also realise that it allows justice to be done with police able to formally identify suspected criminals. But how else does it aid our day to day lives? Well, according to recent reports, ...
