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Question:

Question No. 3

Reply by the Secretary for Security to a question by the Hon. Alex WU, CBE.,JP., in the Legislative Council on Wednesday,

23 January 1985

Would Government inform this Council of the number of cases involving reported theft of audio and other equipment in parked cars and the rate of successful detection leading to conviction in the last two years?

Reply:

Sir, we do not have statistics by type of property stolen from parked cars. The only available breakdown of statistics on theft of all types of property from vehicles relates to the theft of property from inside vehicles (as opposed to the theft of such external parts or accessories as headlamps and tyres). In 1983 there were 4,230 reported cases of theft from inside vehicles. 1984 there were 3,448 cases, a decrease of 18.! 5%.

In

Statistics on detection and conviction refer only to all cases of theft from vehicles. In 1983, the detection rate for all thefts from vehicles was 20.8%. In 1984 it was 13.7%. Discounting those cases not brought to trial before the end of the year, the percentage of detected cases leading to conviction was 78.4% in 1983 and 78.7% in 1984.