The year-to-year November numbers for Battlefords RCMP Detachment showed little change last month from a year earlier.
The numbers for November were presented to the City’s Planning Committee Monday as part of the monthly report from Insp. John Sutherland.
Calls for service were down to 768 compared to 965 the previous November, but crime categories saw only small fluctuations in numbers compared to last year during that same time.
There were 53 person offences, unchanged from the previous November, and six residential break and enters, also unchanged. But there were increases in business break and enters (from zero to two), property offences (from 154 to 180), drug offences (from five to six) and Liquor Acts offences (from 19 to 37).
On the positive side, there were drops in criminal code offences (from 114 to 105) and impaired operation of a motor vehicle (from 26 to 14).
Overall, crime numbers for 2014 are still down for the year in every category. The only increase is in Liquor Acts offences, which are up 64 per cent.
But through November, person offences are down 15 per cent, business break and enters are down 33 per cent, residential break and enters are down five per cent, property offences are down 20 per cent, criminal code offences down 6 per cent, drug offences are down 43 per cent, motor vehicle collisions are down 17 per cent, provincial traffic offences are down 45 per cent, impaired operation of a motor vehicle is down 2 per cent and municipal bylaws are down 11 per cent. Calls for assistance are up for the year, however, by 15 per cent.
Overall calls for service through November remain down substantially at 12,876, down from 15,152 through November 2013.
