CRIME statistics could soon be available for each council ward in Huddersfield.

Information is currently collated in police beat areas. Kirklees is divided into seven areas.

But councillors at yesterday's community safety sub-committee called for more detailed info to quash the public perception of rising crime levels with statistics broken down for each of the 24 council wards.

And Huddersfield police commander Chief Supt John Holt backs the idea.

He said: "It has to lead to meaningful activity. The advantage of this system is it can be used in a fairly flexible way and that enables us to say what the problems are rather than what the spread of the problems is."

Targeting very small areas means specific patterns immediately flare up.

Police can more easily specify a reason for changes in crime levels in a smaller area.

Clr Ken Smith said: "We want to inform people how safe their area is."

Clr Susan May agreed: "Crime is going down and we have to reconcile that with the perception on the street that crime isn't going down."

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