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The Police Department announced plans yesterday to counter the increase in robberies.

In August, Nassau officials met with members of the banking industry to address the increase in robberies.

There was a 21percentt increase in robberies but a decline of 8.4percentt in assaults, the statistics showed.

Those places had a 5.5percentt increase in homicides, a 1.4percentt increase in rapes and a 3.9percentt increase in robberies.

"Although there's been a recent increase in robberies," said Inspector Edward Mullen, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, "there is no specific trend or pattern".

Mr. Kelly said that while several factors had contributed to the increase in robberies -- the sluggish economy being the most obvious -- much of it may be attributable to a change in the way banks do business.

The latest figures published this week show a 13% increase in serious violence, a 26% increase in robbery and a 28% increase in muggings.

But since then the numbers have more than doubled (see chart 4), in tandem with an increase in robbery, extortion and kidnapping.

On a precinct level, the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn, was one of three in the city showing the highest increases in robberies.

"They read about it in the media or see it on TV and they figure if it works for the other guy, it would work for me," he said, adding that increases in robberies often reflect a pattern of crimes involving one person committing more than one robbery.

There were also marked increases in robbery and aggravated assault.