The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) exists to make sure
that London’s police are accountable for the services they
provide to people in the capital.
Celia Prentice
on 18 April 2008 at 10:00
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20/08
18 April 2008
Richard Sumray, MPA member and co-chair of the
Authority's recent scrutiny to examine the accuracy of
Metropolitan Police Service crime recording, said today:
"The MPA carried out a scrutiny into the accuracy of
MPS crime data recording following an approach by the
Metropolitan Police Service. The work received full
co-operation from the Met.
"The scrutiny focus was on the quality of crime data
recorded by the MPS rather than assessing whether recorded
crime levels represent an accurate reflection of actual
crime in London.
"The scrutiny examined policies and procedures,
including the inherent conflict between centrally set
targets and those of the police service and community.
"The scrutiny also identified potentially conflicting
processes and that the same systems are used for
performance monitoring, intelligence gathering and
investigation purposes.
"There is absolutely no suggestion that the MPS is
deliberately preventing Londoners from reporting crime or
manipulating crime figures. The scrutiny found no
indication of corporate dishonesty in crime recording.
"The MPS had identified some of the issues raised in
the scrutiny and has already made a number of improvements.
It continues to work towards ensuring that crime recording
meets the needs of Londoners."
ENDS
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David Lenton
on 16 January 2008 at 10:27
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01/08
16 January 2008
Len Duvall, MPA chair, commenting on the latest London crime
statistics released today, said:
"These figures show crime is going down in London. But
even with this fall in figures we accept that Londoners are
very concerned about crime in the capital and we must work
harder to bring crime down further still.
"Throughout the 2007 calendar year there was a welcome
downward trend across all crime categories, apart from
gun-enabled crime. Rape and robbery are at their lowest
level for nine years and murder for eight years.
"Crimes against the person, including rape, racism,
homophobic and domestic violence, are all down compared to
the previous year, but there is an element of under
reporting in these categories. Although knife enabled crime
fell by 13% this figure has to be seen in the light of very
tragic incidents during 2007.
"There are no simple solutions to address violence
among young people. But personally I do not believe that we
should be tempted into gimmicky, knee-jerk responses to
tragic incidents, particularly when tackling crime
involving young people who are determined to harm each
other. The MPA and the Met, along with our partners in the
community, need to develop comprehensive strategies that
effectively deal with this type of criminality.
"Strong partnerships are key to solving some of the
long-term problems we face and it is good to see that the
public and communities are responding to the investment we
have made in neighbourhood policing. Safer Neighbourhoods
teams are working together with our principal partners in
local government and I want to thank our other partners and
communities across London, all of whom reinforce successful
policing. We are working hard with our partners to try to
reduce crime in our communities. We must provide a service
that is quick to respond to incidents as well as one that
is developing longer-term problem solving initiatives to
prevent crime.
"We want to see continued, significant progress and
even better results in the future. But in the meantime, I
commend our hard-working police officers and staff, and all
those who support their efforts, for another successful
year."
Notes to editors
1.Total notifiable offences in 2007 fell by 6.1 percent,
resulting in 56,784 fewer offences recorded between January
and December 2007 (876,298), compared with the same period in
2006 (933,082).
2. Recorded rape offences were down 14.6%, a fall of 345
recorded offences over the previous calendar year. Domestic
violence, racist crime and homophobic crime were all down,
collectively by more than 26%.
3. The overall sanction detection rate, which identifies
those crimes where the offenders have been identified and
dealt with, also increased from 20.5% to 24.1%, exceeding the
24% target set for the Met by the Metropolitan Police
Authority (MPA).
4. Gun enabled crime rose by 4% (132 offences), although
there was no increase in the numbers of people killed by the
use of firearms in crime during 2007.
5. Knife enabled crime fell by 13%, or 1,602 fewer offences
in 2007, compared with 2006. In 2007 there were 10,699
reported knife enabled crimes, compared with 12,301 for 2006.
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