CRIME INCREASE IN LONDON
Eeceived Monday, 11.21 p.m. LOXDOX, July 29. The tninsilion year of 1945 produced 18.97 indictuble crinieK jier thousand oi Fomloii 's |)ojuilation of 9, 908, 000, says tlie annual rejiort of tlie Met ropolit an Police v 'oniniissioner, Sir ilarold Scott. Tlie nuniber of oll'ences, 128,954, uiis tlie liighe.st since tlie jireseut sysLem oi recording was introduced in 1932. Tlie jioltce cleared up 20 per eent. of tlie indictuble cnses and left nine of 25 cases of lnurder unsolved. Tlie tolaJ nuniber of jiersonp wlin losl their lives by criines of violence was 98. including seven niurderers who eomiuilled suicide and who were resjmnsible for fourleen of tlie niurders. Tlie t 'oiiiuiissioner says a speciai problem is jiresented bv Ihe considerable muulier of deserters from tlie British and Allieil forces who are williout ration books and projier papers and had every iudncenient to prey on others.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 July 1946, Page 5
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150CRIME INCREASE IN LONDON Chronicle (Levin), 30 July 1946, Page 5
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