VIOLENT incidents in York have risen in the last year, a new report has shown.

However, the number of violent incidents in the city at night appear to be falling, with falls also recorded in alcohol-related criminal damage and antisocial behaviour.

The report will go before City of York Council’s Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday, and looks at recorded figures from the Safer York Partnership for the first six months of 2014/15.

It said: “The level of overall violence in the first two quarters of 2014/15 totalled 1,108 incidents and is predicted to be 270 higher at year end than 2013/14.

“The number of violent incidents within the night-time economy looks to be slowly reducing based on the first six months of the year, but the number of antisocial behaviour calls for service is rising.”

According to the council’s figures, the biggest change in violent incidents between last year and this year came in September, when 204 violent incidents were reported compared to 140 the previous year.

The report showed 528 ASB calls during the second quarter of the year, but said there would be lower levels of alcohol-related ASB (1,037 incidents), and criminal damage (706 incidents), this year.

Crime in general looks to be down on last year though, with the report stating: “Data for this period suggests that total crime in York is predicted to be nearly two per cent lower than 2013/14, continuing the trend over the last three years.”

The report also looks at action taken by the partnership, including the referral of 49 drunk offenders to an alcohol diversion programme, vulnerability training rolled out by North Yorkshire Police across the city to members of the security industry in the night time economy.

It also looks at the adoption of the Water Incident Database (WAID), which combines information from a number of agencies to ensure a more comprehensive picture of all fatal and non-fatal river incidents, to help plan future river safety work.

Wednesday’s meeting is at West Offices at 5.30pm.