at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia. Mr. Harding lived in the Swarcliffe area, until his death in December, 2013. The Leeds-born musician, Andrew Edge, grew up in the area, attending Swarcliffe School. He used two photographs taken in Swarcliffe, of a sunrise and sunset, for his Northern Sky album in 1996 (BMG Austria). Swarcliffe residents take part in the annual Leeds in Bloom Private Gardens competition, with a number of gold, silver or bronze winners living in the area. Crime Crime rate data is collected by the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership; an organisation involving the local police force, council, fire authority, and primary care trusts. An example of anti-social behaviour which prompted the enforcement of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, ASBO, was the case of a young man who, in 2008, had posted more than eighty videos of his anti-social behaviour on YouTube, including high-speed road races, verbal abuse, trespassing, leaving a petrol station (supposedly), without paying for petrol, and videoing his use of class A drugs. He was branded "Leeds' dumbest criminal" by councillor Les Carter, who added: "In the last three years, we have seen a 32 per cent reduction in crime in Leeds. If more criminals were as obliging, the city would be even safer". In 2010, a Chinese national, who led a gang of smugglers, was jailed for over three years for running an operation worth £1.5 million. The cargoes of cigarettes and alcohol were hidden in shipments of tea, plastic bags and storage shelves. In 2011, a 42-year-old female drug dealer was jailed for six years for paying others up to £5,000 to confess to her crimes. drugs took over swarcliffe in the late 90s and local teens would steal cars and put shows on outside the post shops a red Ferrari 355 spider taken from a house burglary in North Leeds was just one of the cars took by a gang of teens called swc boys Footnotes References Bibliography External links Leeds Neighbourhood Index (Swarcliffe) ukcrimestats.com: Crossgates, Whinmoor and Temple Newsam Places in Leeds