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Crime in Greater Manchester has thesecond-highest incidence inEngland and Wales afterGreater London.[improper synthesis? (See discussion.)][1][failed verification] Crime inGreater Manchester is the responsibility of the GMP (Greater Manchester Police and its chief constableIan Hopkins).[dubious –discuss] ItsPCC was abolished in May 2017.[not verified in body]
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 forLancashire and around 134,000 forMerseyside.[2] 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.
Violence against the person accounts for 17% of total crime in the city.[citation needed]
Criminal damage accounts for 10% of total crime.[citation needed]
For the quarter ending in December, 2020, the burglary rate in Greater Manchester was 1.96 crimes per thousand residents. The subsequent burglary rate reached a high of 2.33 crimes per thousand residents in the quarter ending in December 2021, and was as low as 1.40 crimes per thousand residents for the quarter ending December 2022.[3]
Around 124,000 speeding motorists were caught from 2018 to 2019, the most in the UK, and around 2,600 more than London.[citation needed]
Duringthe Troubles, theProvisional IRA carried out the1996 Manchester Bombing using a lorry bomb, the largest bomb detonated in Great Britain since the Second World War.[4] The attack left 212 injured, but caused no fatalities, and resulted in about £700 million worth of damage.[5] Manchester had earlier been bombed by the IRA in a1992 attack, also resulting in no fatalities.[6]
In 2017, anIslamist extremistsuicide bomber detonated a shrapnel-laden bomb, targeting people leavingManchester Arena following anAriana Grande concert. Twenty-three people were killed, includingthe bomber, and 239 were physically injured,[7] in the deadliestterrorist attack in the United Kingdom since the7 July 2005 London bombings.[8]
When talking about the most dangerous areas of Manchester; Moss Side, Salford, Cheetham Hill, Longsight, and Oldham are the places where criminal and illegal activities are on the top.
TheNational Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS), known as the Northern NABIS Hub,[9] is in Manchester, where the organisation works with theIntegrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS).[relevant?]
