Police solve a quarter of crimes in borough

Region one of the best in Yorkshire despite low figures

New research has revealed the number of unsolved crimes within the Scarborough borough, revealing that 27% of crimes committed were solved between 2016 and 2017.

However, that figure places Scarborough at the top of the Yorkshire league table.

People living in Barnsley, Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford all see fewer than 10% of their crimes solved by their local police forces.

The statistics, collected by goodmove.co.uk, have uncovered that it is bad news if you are a victim of burglary, as out of 34,521 burglaries committed throughout Yorkshire, only 978 crimes were solved that’s an overall 2.83%.

It has also been shown that violence and sexual offence crimes have a solve rate of just 9.90% in Yorkshire between 2016 and 2017, with only 8,839 crimes solved out of more than 89,000 offences committed.

Taking crime data from Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley, Bradford, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, York, Scarborough and Kirklees, the worst offending cities have been ranked in order of the lowest crime solved rate.

Scarborough has the highest solve rate, with close to 27%of crimes committed were solved.

n the other end of the spectrum, Sheffield has the worst solve rate, with a mere 7.23% of crimes committed between 2016 and 2017 were solved.

The data also reveals the crimes with the

Of 4,446 bicycle theft crimes committed in Yorkshire, only 62 were solved

worst solve rate.

Out of 4,446 bicycle theft crimes committed in Yorkshire, only 62 were solved that equates to only 1.39% of reported bicycle thefts.

Drug possession offences and possession of a weapon has one of the highest solve rate within Yorkshire. An outstanding 71.74% of drug possessions were solved, and 36.35% of weapon possession crimes were solved.