High rise in crime rate
- Title
- High rise in crime rate
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 16 Mar 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:02:51
- Description
- Interview with UK Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, about statistics showing a high rise in the crime rate. He says the figures don’t embarrass the Government and outlines some ways they plan to tackle it. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Douglas Hurd
- Keywords
- Death penalty; Police; Prisons; Metropolitan Police; Penal sanctions; Crime victims; Victims of crime; Rape; Crime statistics; Theft
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LBC/IRN, "High rise in crime rate". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0002100189005 (Accessed 31 Aug 2025)