Crime in Greater Manchester has the Crime in

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is the responsibility of the GMP (

Greater Manchester Police Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England. , Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...

and its chief constable

Ian Hopkins Ian Hopkins is a former senior British police officer. From October 2015 to December 2020, he was the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. Career Hopkins joined Greater Manchester Police (GMP) in April 2008 on promotion to assistant ch ...

). Its

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was abolished in May 2017. The Blue Lamp - geograph

History

Greater Manchester is the second-largest metropolitan area in the UK outside of London. The area had around 334,000 recorded crimes in 2018, compared to around 165,000 for

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and around 134,000 for

Merseyside Merseyside ( ) is a metropolitan county, metropolitan and ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England, with a population of List of ceremonial counties of England, 1.38 million. It encompasses both banks of the Merse ...

. Similar to Greater Manchester's number of crimes are West Yorkshire (291,000 in 2018), West Midlands (252,000 in 2018) and Kent (197,000). The Metropolitan Police had 835,000 recorded crimes in 2018.

Types of crime

Violence against the person

Violence against the person accounts for 17% of total crime in the city.

Criminal damage

Criminal damage Property damage (or cf. criminal damage in England and Wales) is damage or destruction of Real property, real or tangible Personal property, personal property, caused by negligence, Willful violation, willful destruction, or Act of God, act of na ...

accounts for 10% of total crime.

Burglary

Burglary Burglary, also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking, is the act of entering a building or other areas without permission, with the intention of committing a criminal offence. Usually that offence is theft, robbery or murder ...

accounts for 8% of crime.

Motoring

Around 124,000 speeding motorists were caught from 2018 to 2019, the most in the UK, and around 2,600 more than London. Nexus House - geograph

Terrorism

Manchester was bombed by the

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in 1992 and 1996 and by an Islamist suicide bomber in 2017.

Areas

Of all the Greater Manchester boroughs,

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

has the highest incidence of crime, followed by

Rochdale Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...

and

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh ...

Trafford Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of 235,493 in 2017. It covers Retrieved on 13 December 2007. and includes the area of Old Trafford and the towns of Altrincham, Stretford, Ur ...

has the lowest incidence of crime in Greater Manchester.

Facilities

The

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(NABIS), known as the Northern NABIS Hub,NABIS
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(IBIS).

References

External links

Policing in Greater Manchester
{{UK law enforcement agencies Organised crime in England