If personal security is one of your top priorities, you could do worse than look at the trend of criminals in your residential surroundings.

According to reports out today, Greater Manchester and London have the highest numbers of prolific offenders in the country. To be classed as ‘prolific’ the offender must have carried out more than six acts of criminal activity in teh last year and be causing widespread misery. More than a thousand criminals living in these areas are repeat offenders and still at liberty. Surely this says something about the justice system and internal security in our country?

To highlight the problem, offender Stuart McCormick is being held up as an example. After finally being jailed for burglary he then decided to own up to over 500 other crimes that it has taken the police a year to verify.

Up and down the country, criminals re-offending is becoming a huge issue. The Home Office have rolled out programmes to offenders such as intense supervision as well as working with other authorities to try to rehabilitate repeat offenders. Something tells me it’s not working!

Not only are the general public being repeatedly subjected to the violence and theft of these people but we also suffer higher insurance premiums if we live in a known area for repeat offenders. It is widely known that many of these repeat offenders are driven by living drug fuelled lives – maybe it is this aspect that needs addressing?

However, if you want to keep your family and yourself as safe as possible, move to Wiltshire. This has the lowest amount of repeat offenders in the country and will come with lower household insurance premiums as a result.