MORE than 80 percent of burglaries and thefts committed in Bolton last year went unsolved.

Figures show that 85 per cent of burglaries from a house have not been solved along with 88 per cent of burglaries at non-dwelling properties.

Around 90 per cent of the recorded thefts from a person also remain unsolved as do 91 per cent of bicycle thefts.

Vehicle offences also saw a high rate, with 89 per cent not being solved by police.

Of the 1385 dwelling burglaries committed last year, 1171 are unsolved and 1223 of the 1382 non-dwelling burglaries are unsolved.

227 bicycle thefts were reported to Greater Manchester Police in Bolton but just 21 have seen a result.

The unsolved crime figure shows the number that GMP has recorded as a complete investigation where no suspect has been identified.

Of all the crimes reported in Bolton in 2016, 23,601, 13,364 have had no suspect identified, meaning that 56 per cent went unsolved last year.

Last year also saw a high proportion of vehicle crimes going unsolved. 2378 were reported to GMP in the borough and 2114 went unsolved, a rate of 89 per cent.

All of the murders committed in the borough had a suspect identified in Bolton while no suspect was identified in just 14 of 154 rape cases and just two of 225 drugs possession cases went unsolved.

The figures appear to generally fall in line with how the whole of GMP fared in 2016 as around 60 per cent of crimes went unsolved across the region.

Around 88 per cent of burglaries in a dwelling across Greater Manchester went unsolved and around 94 per cent of thefts from the person.

Speaking about how GMP responds to crime, Chief Inspector Clark Bowers, of the Bolton borough, said: "We allocate our resources to the people that need them the most. It is about threat risk and harm and whether there are opportunities to bring people to justice."