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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1988

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