The total number of crimes recorded in the Cleveland force area dropped by 4% last year - but reports of sexual offences rose dramatically.
Cleveland Police recorded 38,045 crimes during the year ending September 2014.
Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show that crimes such as burglary and theft, vehicle offences, criminal damage and arson have dropped.
The number of times that a possession of weapons offence has been recorded in Cleveland dropped by 15% in that period.
But the number of sexual offences crimes recorded, 665, rose by 14%.
Fraud offences have been taken out of the force’s statistics completely, after new agency Action Fraud took over recording these crimes from individual forces in March 2013.
Robberies are up by 2% - while reports of violence with injury are up by the same amount.
In the nearby Durham force area, the total crime figure increased by 9%.
However, of every 1,000 people living in the Cleveland force area during the year, 68 crimes were reported - almost 15 higher than Durham’s rate.
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