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[pounds sterling]325 a head: Cost of crime in W Yorks.
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Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
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July 5, 2008
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RECORDED crime in West Yorkshire costs each person in the county an estimated [pounds sterling]325, a survey shows.
In total that means that with a population of 2.16 million people, the total cost of crime is a staggering [pounds sterling]703,975,509.
The Cost of Crime report uses crime data from 39 police forces across the country to produce a clear and accessible picture of the true impact of recorded crime nationwide. The TaxPayers' Alliance have produced a league table of police forces ranked by the cost of crime per head of population, allowing local ...