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This page contains press release 66/04, in which the MPA announces that the MPS is making excellent progress in reducing crime makes Londoners feel safer.

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MPS performance – excellent progress in reducing crime makes Londoners feel safer

66/04
22 September 2004

The Metropolitan Police Authority today welcomed publication of the Home Office Police Performance Monitors 2003/04 that reveal London’s police achieved excellent results last year when burglary, car crime and gun-enabled crime were all reduced by 7% and street crime by 4%.

The Police Performance Monitors measure comparable, or ‘most similar’, police forces against a range of criteria, including reducing and investigating crime, and enables the public to assess how their force is performing.

Commenting on Metropolitan Police Service performance Richard Sumray, pictured, chair of the MPA Planning, Performance and Review Committee, said:

“The MPS achieved significant progress in a majority of the fields monitored and cut crime in major areas. Overall crime in London was down by 1.8%.

“Significantly the published data shows that fear of crime was reduced. This indicates the MPS is targeting its resources effectively, producing real results for Londoners and helping them to feel safer. We expect these trends to continue to improve for the current year.

“Detection rates is an area where the Authority feels the MPS must significantly improve its performance and we recognise that there is a great amount of work to be done. However, we believe that the trend for detection rates can be turned and the MPA will be working closely with the MPS to make real progress.”

Notes to editors

  1. The Police Performance Monitors measure ‘most similar’ police forces in England and Wales against each other. For the Metropolitan Police Service the ‘most similar’ forces are West Midlands, Merseyside, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester Police.
  2. The MPA Planning, Performance and Review Committee considers and monitors MPS performance against locally and nationally set targets and develops the Authority’s scrutiny role in looking at areas of performance in need of improvement.

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