REPORTS of violence and sexual offences were the highest reported crime in January across Bradford, according to the latest police data.

Figures from the data.police.uk website show there were a total of 6,375 crimes in the Bradford policing district in January 2023.

Of those there were 2,905 reports of violence and sexual offences.

This was followed by 696 reports of public order offences, 543 of criminal damage and arson, as well as 431 reports of other theft – which includes theft by an employee, blackmail and making off without payment.

There were also 342 burglaries, 321 incidents of anti-social behaviour, 307 recorded vehicle crimes, and 243 incidents of shoplifting.

Other crime, which includes forgery, perjury and other miscellaneous crime, accounted for 209 reports.

In addition, there were 186 drugs offences, 77 robberies, 51 reports of theft from a person, 49 possession of weapon offences, and 15 bicycle thefts.

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

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

The points on the map represent the approximate location of a crime or incident - not the exact place that it happened.