\n In August, 2,052 offences were reported to Bromley police.\n<\/p>\n
\n The number of offences dropped slightly when compared to July, which saw 2,222 offences reported.\n<\/p>\n
\n The most reported crime last month was violence against an individual, of which there were 513 offences.\n<\/p>\n
\n 376 of these reports didn\u2019t involve injury, whilst the remaining 137 did.\n<\/p>\n
\n Theft was the second most frequently reported crime in August.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bromley saw 227 instances of shoplifting, 61 instances of theft from a person, and 22 instances of bicycle theft.\n<\/p>\n
\n In total, there were 484 reports made to the police, 174 of which were classified as \u201cother theft\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n The third most reported crime was vehicle offences, where there were 313 reports.\n<\/p>\n
\n 126 offences of theft or unauthorised taking of a vehicle were reported, and 155 were from people stealing something which was inside a vehicle.\n<\/p>\n
\n The remaining 32 were related to interfering with a motor vehicle or aggravated vehicle taking.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bromley saw 226 offences of arson and criminal damage, and 177 public order offences.\n<\/p>\n
\n 104 reports of drug offences were made to the Metropolitan Police, 86 of which were possession of, and the remaining 18 were the trafficking of.\n<\/p>\n
\n There were 69 cases of burglary, 48 of which were into a residential property and 21 in a business environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sexual offence cases closely followed, with 60 cases, 19 of which were rape.\n<\/p>\n
\n Robbery, where an individual uses force to obtain someone\u2019s property, saw 51 cases.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bromley has recorded 40 cases of \u2018miscellaneous crimes against society,\u2019 covering offences that are seen as harmful to the community but don\u2019t fall into typical crime categories.\n<\/p>\n
\n The least reported crime in August was the possession of weapons, where there were 15 cases.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is important to note that, while these figures show the crime offences in Bromley, it does not necessarily mean all the victims or offenders involved live in the borough.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bromley is London\u2019s largest borough, and the second most populated in south London, so when compared to other boroughs, it will have higher crime figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In August, 2,052 offences were reported to Bromley police. The number of offences dropped slightly when compared to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115189615399538215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}