We are district's crime capital

Wairarapa tops the per capita figures for recorded crime in the Wellington police district _ with 1246.4 crimes per 10,000 people, new figures show.
That marks a 15 per cent spike, putting the region just over 200 offences ahead of second-placed Lower Hutt, followed by Wellington, Upper Hutt and Kapiti-Mana.
Of Wellington Police District's five areas, Wairarapa also had the worst resolution rate for sex crimes, despite concerted moves to curb a huge backlog of child sex cases in the region identified in late 2008.
Overall, Wairarapa's crime statistics for 2009 look to be treading water compared with previous figures for October _ then described as ''mediocre'' by top brass.
Across the Wellington Police District the majority of recorded crimes _ 50.1 per cent _ were in the dishonesty category, followed by drugs and anti-social (15.3 per cent), violence (14.5 per cent), property damage (13.1 per cent), property abuse (4.1 per cent), administrative (2 per cent) and sexual (0.8 per cent).
The overall rate for crimes solved in Wairarapa held firm on October's figures, at just 48.5 per cent, a percentage that still fits the criterion of ''mediocre'' _ the word Wairarapa area commander Inspector John Johnston used to describe the area's plunge to a 44.4 per cent resolution rate in 2008.
That low resolution lines up with the rest of the district, with a resolution rate falling from 52.3 per cent solved in Kapiti-Mana to just 41.6 per cent in Lower Hutt.
Resolutions for violent crimes were typically healthy across the district, with Wairarapa police solving 82.8 per cent of recorded violent offending, just below the district-wide average of 85.1 per cent. That was again led by Kapiti-Mana, which maintained pole position for a third year running with a 91.3 per cent resolution rate in the category.
Meanwhile, with 19 sex crimes solved, Wairarapa recorded a significant jump in resolutions for that offence category, leaping a full 8 per cent in 2009 to 48.7 per cent, up on 2008's paltry 40.7 per cent resolution.
But Wairarapa is still languishing at the bottom of the Wellington Police District, 5.3 per cent behind Wellington and 14.4 per cent behind the national sex crime resolution rate of 62.1 per cent. In 2009 only the Canterbury and Eastern districts could match Wairarapa with sex crime resolution rates under 50 per cent.
Nationally, big increases in violent crime and murder have shown up the Government's hardline policies on law and order as largely ineffective.
There were more than 65,000 violent offences recorded last year, which is up more than 9 per cent over the previous year. There were no homicides in Wairarapa but 65 murders nationwide.