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Information on the numbers and types of crimes committed.
We want our communities to be places where people feel safe to live and work now and in the future.

Key Official Statistics relating to Crime and Justice are usually collated and published for England and Wales together, and the main producers are the Office for National Statistics, Home Office and Ministry of Justice.

The information below provides links to headlines and reports that Welsh Government has published to provide Welsh summaries of the various datasets, followed by links to the producers’ relevant web pages for more detailed and up-to-date statistics.

Statistical headlines, releases and bulletins

Crime & justice

Publication

Statistical Focus on Crime in Wales, 2011

Statistical articles

Local Crime in Wales, 2008

Crime Trends in Wales, 2003-2008

StatsWales

Detailed datasets are available on the StatsWales website.

StatsWales website: Crime and Justice (external link)

Other sources of information

Links to information published by other organisations. 

Office for National Statistics website: Crime statistics (external link)
Quarterly summaries of police recorded crime and Crime Survey for England and Wales, plus other themed reports on Crime

Gov.UK website: Statistics at Home Office (external link)
Includes statistics on the police service and police powers, crime outcomes, drug use and seizures, hate crime and racist incidents

Ministry of Justice website: Statistics (external link)
Range of statistics on the criminal justice system, including courts, sentencing, the prison service, offenders and re-offenders, youth justice

Police.uk website (external link)
For local, including street-level, information on crimes and outcomes

Audit commission website: Police authorities (external link)
Police authority inspection reports

If you are unable to find the exact information you need please Email stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk