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HOWEVER, INCREASES WERE WOUNDINGS AND SERIOUS ASSAULTS, RESPECTIVELY.
RECORDED
FOR INDECENT
ASSAULT, AND
UP 17.2
AND PERCENT
13.7 PERCENT
TOTALLED
CRIME VIOLENT
1,258 CASES DURING THE QUARTER, REPRESENTING 21.5 PERCENT OF ALL CRIMES REPORTED.
STILL HIGH. ON ROBBERIES, MR LEE SAID THE USE OF VIOLENCE WAS
WERE HE SAID: "WEAPONS
USED IN 46.6 PERCENT OF THESE OFFENCES, RESULTING IN 23.9 PERCENT OF ROBBERIES' VICTIMS SUSTAINING INJURIES,"
THE OF ALL
ROBBERIES COMMITTED IN THE THIRD
10 QUARTER, A TOTAL OF $15 MILLION WORTH OF INVOLVED GOLDSMITH OR WATCH SHOPS.
THE STOLEN.
CORRESPONDING NUMBERS GOLD, JEWELLERY AND WATCHES WERE OF SUCH ROBBERIES FOR THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SAME QUARTER YEAR WERE 14 AND NINE RESPECTIVELY.
THERE WERE 47 ROBBERIES INVOLVING THE USE OF OR PISTOL LIKE OBJECTS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988, CASES WERE CONFIRMED AS GENUINE FIREARMS.
LAST
GENUINE FIREARMS OF WHICH THREE
THERE WERE 54 SUCH CASES IN THE PRECEDING
QUARTER AND 48
IN
THE SAME QUARTER OF LAST YEAR.
OUT POINTED
THAT IN
28.8 DID
WITH REGARD TO BURGLARIES, MR LEE PERCENT OF ALL CASES OCCURRING IN THE THIRD QUARTER, THE BURGLARS NOT HAVE TO BREAK INTO THE PREMISES.
COMPARED WITH LAST QUARTER, DOMESTIC PREMISES BURGLARIES DECREASED BY 6.8 PERCENT, COMMERCIAL OFFICE BURGLARIES BY 3.9 PERCENT,
SHOP BURGLARIES WENT UP AND FACTORY BURGLARIES BY 0.8 PERCENT. 3.4 PERCENT.
BY
DAY IN PREVIOUS
PERIOD OF
WOUNDINGS AND SERIOUS ASSAULTS AVERAGED 21.1 CASES PER
OF
PERCENT 13.7
OVER THE THE THIRD QUARTER, AN INCREASE QUARTER AND ALSO 5.5 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE CORRESPONDING LAST YEAR.
OF THE NUMBER
THOSE
INCLUDING QUARTER UNDER REVIEW.
CAUTIONED
WITHOUT
JUVENILE OFFENDERS AGED
PROSECUTION,
16 BELOW
DECREASED
ARRESTED,
IN
THE
OF ALL OFFENDERS ARRESTED DURING PERCENT) WERE JUVENILES.
THE
QUARTER, 1,497 LOR 15
TO
21} BELOW MEANWHILE, 1,691 YOUNG OFFENDERS (AGED 16 ARRESTED DURING THE QUARTER, REPRESENTING A 2.4 PERCENT DECREASE THE PREVIOUS QUARTER AND
5.5 A
DECREASE OVER CORRESPONDING PERIOD OF LAST YEAR,
YOUNG OF FENDERS ACCOUNTED ARRESTED DURING THE QUARTER.
PERCENT
WERE OVER THE
FOR 16.9 PERCENT OF
ALL PERSONS
/DURING THE