Police-1966-1967 — Page 80

SOME 1966-67 STATISTICS

Previous Years

1963-64 1964-65 1965-66 1966-67

Ratio of Regular Police to Population*

Establishment

Strength ...

C

1:419 1:392 1:368 1:344 1:434 1:407 1:375 1:357

Annual Cost of Force for each Head of Population $20.70 $24.21 $27.98 $29.87

Serious Crime Cases

**(Including Serious Narcotics Offences) Persons Convicted

Convictions for each 1,000 population.....

...

2

2

13,978 16,769 19,790 21,324 6,285 7,847 8,913 9,280

2

3

Narcotics Offences

Persons Convicted

*

...

Convictions for each 1,000 population...

Juvenile Crime

Prosecutions of Persons 16 years of age and

younger.

***

Traffic

19,914 19,187 17,913 18,310

...

14,000 4

13,206 4

12,264 3

13,648

4

1,080

1,826 1,762

1,911

Number of registered vehicles

75,384

Number of vehicles to every mile of road

136

86,025 158

91,079

95,898

161

Number of registered private cars

46,592 51,648 54,900

154 57,960

Number of licensed drivers

...

**

148,706 163,926 182,290 203,043

Number of Fatal Traffic Accidents

260

284

260

263

...

444

Number of fatal accidents for each 1,000

vehicles Number of traffic accidents involving serious

injuries...

3

...

...

...

3

3

3

***

...

2,295

2,609

2,633

3,198

* The Population figure used is 3,785,300 as in December 1966.

** Prior to 1963-64 Serious Narcotics Offences were shown under Narcotics Offences.

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