Crime report for December

A new website allows you to type in your postcode, and discover how much street crime and anti-social behaviour has taken place in your area in the most recent month for which records are available.

So, your intrepid researcher had a look, entering IP6 8QR, i.e. The Lane, and here are the results;

• burglary - zero
• anti-social behaviour - five
• robbery - zero
• vehicle crime - zero
• violent crime - zero
• other crime - zero

So, where's all of this anti-social behaviour then? Closer examination indicates that the figures are for an area covered by a circle with a radius of one mile. Just inside one mile? Cedars Park... and guess where all of the incidences of anti-social behaviour took place...