Home Office - Annual crime statistics for England & Wales, for the year ending March 2008, including data from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime.

Below are the website links to crime maps across all 43 police forces in England and Wales. Click on the link to find the statistics for your area.

Home Office - This publication presents the most recent crime statistics from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime.

Police-recorded crime in England and Wales fell 9% in the year to March, latest figures suggest.

The British Crime Survey shows that most people do not have confidence in the ability of the police and their local council to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. Only 46 percent of people in England and Wales do, according to the survey. In a way this is not surprising, you see then police on the street less than you used to and the police do not seem concerned with many of the crimes that wo...

The Home Office has achieved its self-imposed deadline of getting all 43 police forces in the UK to put up online crime maps. But are any of them any good? As reported by us last week (Police launch online neighbourhood crime maps, 6 January), the maps are intentionally limited. Simon Reed, the vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: "Our concern is that statistics relea...

Recorded crime in England and Wales has fallen by 8% over the last year, official figures show.

Police officers in England and Wales are to get more discretion to decide when crime suspects should be charged.

Labour came to power claiming to be tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Naturally, they lied. "Some police forces have been under-recording the most serious violent crimes, the Home Office said today, as it released figures showing a 22% increase. Two of the most serious categories of knife crime also shot up after the miscounting was revealed. Attempted murders in England and Wales invo...

From Pravda Central:"Every neighbourhood in England and Wales will have access to the latest local crime information through new interactive crime maps, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today.....By the end of the year every police force area will produce crime maps which will allow the public to:* see where and when crime has happened, down to street level for some crimes;* make comparisons ...