"RECORDED crime in Fife has gone up in the past 10 years by more than 7,000 incidents but has dropped in the past three. Figures released this week show that the number of recorded crimes in the Kingdom in 2006-07 was 30,304, compared to 22,856 in 1997-98. The increase is in all areas except housebreaking. Non-sexual violent crime went from 338 to 550 while serious assaults went from 88 to 275. However, the current overall figure has come down in the last three years from a high of 34,862 in 2004-2005."
Carnegie hates to point out that even allowing for the fact that crime fiugures have fallen over the last four years, the overall level of crime across the Kingdom is still nearly a third higher than it was in 1997-98. Is that really something that we should be happy about?
Time for the cops to get their house in order and better protect Fife's people, afterall they have more resources, cash and cops, than ever before to tackle crime and that is in large part because the police have been so good at getting extra cash ... in response to them highlighting increasing crime figures.
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