No burglaries reported in Leicester for 24 hours
The city had a 24-hour period this week when no burglaries were reported, said the police.
A force spokesman said the 24-hour burglary-free period, between 6am on Thursday and 6am yesterday, was the seventh it had recorded so far this year.
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Detective Superintendent Andy Lee, who is in charge of criminal investigations in the city area, said: "This is absolutely fantastic news, both for the police service and the communities we serve.
"This has not happened by chance. This excellent result is due to a great deal of hard work and dedicated team work among city officers."
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He said officers had identified "the individuals who cause the greatest threat, and successfully targeted them, thereby driving down levels of crime".
The city area, which comprises six police stations – Beaumont Leys, Keyham Lane, Spinney Hill Park, Mansfield House, Welford Road and Hinckley Road – has a target to reduce house burglaries by 8 per cent this year.
Det Supt Lee said the reduction was, in fact, 8.6 per cent, achieved through initiatives including Operation Dynamo, a force-wide burglary reduction campaign, and uniform and plain clothes patrols "to exploit every opportunity to deter burglars".
In the year to date, a total of 1,259 house burglaries have been recorded. In the year 2011/12 the figure was 1,378, and in the year before that, the figure was 1,547.
The other 24-hour periods came on April 27, May 20, June 11 and 22 and August 13 and 15.
Comments
by Heritage Heating& Cooling
Tuesday, December 11 2012, 1:19PM
“Before the police start crowing i would like to see no burglaries for a bit longer than a 24 hour period.... and I doubt some of the poor devils who have been burgled before or after the magical 24 hours are quite so happy.”
by rhino
Monday, December 10 2012, 7:05PM
“NO its been a quiet night for plod and he relishes it and it keeps the crime figures DOWN.”
by dcrane
Saturday, December 08 2012, 8:48PM
“Must to be too cold for the robbing scumbags to be out and about burgling homes then?”