WE’VE mapped every incidence of criminal damage and arson across the district for the whole of 2022.

This crime map has been compiled by the Telegraph & Argus, using information from the data.police.uk website.

It shows every criminal damage and arson offence reported to West Yorkshire Police that has taken place in the Bradford policing district throughout the whole of 2022.

You can browse through the map or search for a street name or postcode, to see the level of this type of crime on every road in the whole of the Bradford district.

There were more than 7,000 criminal damage and arsons in Bradford in 2022 – with the data including damage to buildings and vehicles and deliberate damage by fire.

MAPPED: Every burglary and robbery across the Bradford district in 2022

MAPPED: Every vehicle crime mapped across Bradford in 2022

Of these, no suspect was able to be identified in just over 60 per cent of cases, while around four per cent are still under investigation.

Around four per cent of these reported crimes have made it to the courts so far.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus:

Examples include a lonely refugee who set fire to his Bradford flat hoping it would bring fellow Eritreans to see him.

Mukur Ftwi used a lighter to ignite bedding at the address in Upper Rushton Road in June last year.

He was jailed for three years and four months at Bradford Crown Court after pleading guilty to reckless arson.

In addition a 33-year-old man was fined after causing almost £2,500 worth of damage to a Bradford company’s vehicles.

Adam Harrison, of Foldings Parade, Scholes, Cleckheaton, faced one charge of criminal damage to property valued under £5,000.

He admitted damaging six company vehicles belonging to the value of £2,419.20, belonging to Shipley Transport Services, Dealburn Road, Bradford.

The offence took place on July 13, 2022, and he was fined 473 and ordered to pay £400 in compensation at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court.

In total, there were just over 82,800 recorded crimes across Bradford in 2022.

This can be broken down as follows:

Violence and sexual offences (36098); public order (10577); criminal damage and arson (7266); anti-social behaviour (7256); other theft (5018); vehicle crime (3978); shoplifting (3072); burglary (3008); drugs (2322); other crime (1916); robbery (709); theft from person (706); possession of weapons (621); and bicycle theft (325).

We will be focusing on other crimes as we compile more 2022 crime maps in the coming weeks.