{"id":84203,"date":"2026-01-29T18:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84203"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:16:49","slug":"sex-crimes-soar-to-record-levels-with-average-of-588-every-day-while-drug-offences-and-shoplifting-continue-to-rise-in-new-official-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/sex-crimes-soar-to-record-levels-with-average-of-588-every-day-while-drug-offences-and-shoplifting-continue-to-rise-in-new-official-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex crimes soar to record levels with average of 588 every day, while drug offences and shoplifting continue to rise in new official stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/29\/10\/105507409-15508635-image-a-9_1769681445495.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of sex offences reported to police has jumped to a record high, official figures show.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15508635\/Sex-crimes-soar-record-levels-average-588-day-drug-offences-shoplifting-continue-rise-new-official-stats.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of sex offences reported to police has jumped to a record high, official figures show.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Met-Police-logo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84204,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203\/revisions\/84204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}