The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in Newport city centre from 2003-2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where re/evant.

The line graph shows the

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of burglaries, car theft and robberies in Newport city between 2003 and 2012.

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, the

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of burglaries sharply decreased in

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period.

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, the other two types of crime remained unchanged. In 2003, there were almost 3500 incidents of burglary.

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figure increased to approximately 3700 in the next year.

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, it dramatically fell to 1300 by 2008.

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, burglary fluctuated between 1500 and 1200 crimes until the end of the interval.

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, regarding car theft and robbery , which stayed stable over the 9 years. In the first three years, the

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of car thefts was around 2700.

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,

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trend declined to almost 2000 by 2006 and levelled off until 2008.

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, it reached 2600 in 2010, before decreasing to 2200

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.

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, the robbery had the same

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of incidents, which is 600, with some fluctuations during the period.