Burglaries in Wiltshire have plummeted during the second lockdown – the silver lining of the stay at home message. Wiltshire Police received 152 reports of burglaries in November 2020, compared to 290 in November 2019 – a drop of 48 per cent, according to figures from the police crime reports database. Insurance company Aviva warned that although some burglars may have been deterred, research finds that nearly two-thirds of burglaries happen while people are in their homes. While burglaries represented 6 percent of all reports made to police in the area in November 2019, they represented 3.9 percent of offences reported during the same month last year. Reported crime as a whole fell by 20 percent in Wiltshire during the period.
Police cordoned off woodland following the alleged rape of a woman in Kidsgrove in September
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The number of rapes reported to Staffordshire Police has plummeted during the coronavirus lockdown.
Latest Home Office figures show there were 231 reports of rape recorded by Staffordshire Police between April and June. That compares with 297 rapes over the same period in 2019/20.