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Runners beware - Violent crime on the increase in Warwickshire!!

Runners beware - Violent crime on the increase in Warwickshire!!

With the nights drawing in and may fitness enthusiasts training in parks and running the roads the new statistics are alarming!!  New figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales show there were 3,745 reports of violence with injury in Warwickshire in the year up to March 31, 2016 - a rise of 120 per cent. This was closely followed by incidents of violence against the person which were up 71 per cent to 8,387.  In the West Midlands, the picture also showed an increase in violent incidents with violence with injury up 28 per cent to 23,199 and violence against the person up 19 per cent to 43,187.