Moyle crime up by a fifth

RECORDED crime in the Moyle area has risen by 20 per cent, a report prepared by Moyle Community Safety Partnership said.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th Jun 2010, 12:33 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2010, 15:40 BST

In the 2008-09 financial year there were 773 reported incidents but the figure rose to 933 in 2009-10.

However, Moyle Council’s Community Safety Co-ordinator Bridgeen Butler said the Moyle rise is still slightly less than the average 25 per cent reported crime rise in Northern Ireland.

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Also in Moyle there was a 26 per cent rise in the total number of domestic violence incidents - up from 146 to 184.

And there was also a rise in criminal damage - up 15.3 per cent from 248 to 286.

But recorded anti-social behaviour incidents fell by 5.3 per cent from 640 to 606.

And Moyle ratepayers also had less to pay out on vandalism. There was a 16 per cent drop in the amount of damage caused to Moyle Council property from 10,852 to 9,062.

In Moyle 104,000 has been set aside for projects aimed at preventing crime and 85,000 will go on ‘tackling anti-social behaviour’.

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