Overview

• Official data comparing the 12 months to August with the previous year show 8,749 fewer violent injury offences, a decline of nearly 12% across all 32 boroughs.
• Havering recorded the largest reduction in violent injury offences at 16.3%, followed by Enfield at 16.1%, while Greenwich fell 4.3% and Kensington and Chelsea 4.6%.
• The mayor’s office reports homicides at a decade low, with the homicide rate 17% lower in the 12 months to June than in the year to May 2016.
• Met leaders say firearms discharges are less than half the level seven years ago as officers make over 1,000 additional arrests each month and victim‑case solve rates have doubled year on year.
• Conservative critics dispute the portrayal, citing separate analyses of rising knife offences, reduced use of stop and search, low robbery solve rates and concerns over police staffing.