{"id":526266,"date":"2025-10-25T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:42:16","slug":"dorset-remains-among-the-10-safest-counties-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/526266\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset remains among the 10 safest counties in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dorset remains among the top ten safest counties in England following a further drop in overall crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that between Monday, July 1, 2024 and Sunday, June 1, 2025, the county experienced a 2.7 per cent reduction in overall crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Victim-based crime decreased by 3.2 per cent, while violence against the person dropped by 2.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputy chief constable Rachel Farrell said: &#8220;I am pleased to see that crime in Dorset has continued to fall, keeping the county one of the safest areas to live, work and visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vehicle offences, residential burglary, and business burglary saw reductions of 10.5 per cent, 12.5 per cent, and 14.8 per cent, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, there was an 11.8 per cent rise in shoplifting, slightly below the national increase of 12.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dorset police remain committed to tackling this issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police and crime commissioner David Sidwick said: &#8220;Many of these results outperform the national averages, an important aspect in ensuring Dorset remains one of the safest places in the country, and in sending a message that we will not tolerate criminality of any kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My thanks go to all the Dorset Police officers, staff and volunteers who have worked tirelessly in challenging circumstances to deliver these results.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorset remains among the top ten safest counties in England following a further drop in overall crime. Data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,23560,170677,393,4884,15165,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-526266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-dorset","10":"tag-dorset-police","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-office-for-national-statistics","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115432976943088401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526266","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=526266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}