INCREASE IN BRIGG BURGLARIES

There has been a month-on-month rise in reported Brigg crime - mostly due to burglaries (see below).
Latest figures - for May - have been released through www.police.uk
Incident recorded took place within a mile radius of the police station.
Eight crimes were reported in an area which includes Bridge Street and the western end of the town centre.
Here is a brief summary of the crime information for the past two months:

	April 2015	May 2015
All crime	41	46
Anti-social behaviour	10	9
Bicycle theft	0	0
Burglary	1	12
Criminal damage and arson	3	5
Drugs	0	0
Other crime	0	0
Other theft	4	2
Possession of weapons	0	0
Public order	0	1
Robbery	0	0
Shoplifting	4	4
Theft from the person	0	1
Vehicle crime	9	6
Violence and sexual offences	10	6

Visit https://www.police.uk/shape/ChzFpj/ for more information including outcomes for these crimes and contact information for your local policing team.

It's a fact there is more crime at certain times of the year. So Brigg Blog has looked up the official figures for May during past years, to offer a comparison with the 46 reported incidents in May 2015:

• May 2014 - 20 crimes.
• May 2013 - 48 crimes.
• May 2012 - 43 crimes.
• May 2011 - 72 crimes.

Make what you will of those "stats". However, we should stress that Brigg remains a pretty low crime area with an average of well below two crimes a day, of all kinds, being reported.