Presents data on crime reported to, or detected by, the NSW Police Force from January 1995 to December 2014, with a focus on the statistical trends for the 24 months ending December 2014.

Summary

The report includes an overview of trends in the most recent two-year period for major offence categories, firstly for NSW and then across NSW regions broken down to the Local Government Area (LGA) level. At the State level, for the 24-month period to the end of December 2014 one major offence category has been trending upwards: steal from dwelling (up 3.2%). Eight of the 17 major offence categories were trending downwards: robbery without a weapon (down 21.7%), robbery with a weapon not a firearm (down 14.5%), break and enter dwelling (down 3.8%), break and enter non-dwelling (down 12.8%), steal from motor vehicle (down 4.7%), steal from retail store (down 6.2%), steal from person (down 14.6%) and malicious damage to property (down 10.8%).