THE number of crimes reported across Bradford in June has fallen compared to the previous month, according to the latest police data.

A total of 7,187 crimes were reported to police in the district in June using figures from the data.police.uk website.

This compares with 7,668 reported crimes in May – the highest month so far this year.

The data shows there were 7,012 reports in April, 6,830 in March, 6,500 in February and 6,375 in January.

So this still means a 12.7 per cent rise on the first month of the year.

The most common reported crime continues to be violence and sexual offences, where there were 3,168 in June, with 757 public order offences, and 731 incidents of anti-social behaviour.

All three categories fell when compared to the level of reports in the previous month.

In addition, there were 580 reports of criminal damage and arson, and 423 reports classified as “other theft”. This includes theft by an employee, blackmail and making off without payment.

There were also 355 vehicle crimes, 292 incidents of shoplifting and 281 burglaries.

In total, there were 199 classed as “other crimes”, which includes forgery, perjury and other miscellaneous crime, as well as 196 drugs offences.

There were also 62 reports of theft from the person, 56 possession of a weapon incidents, 55 robberies, and 32 bicycle thefts.

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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.