On London Extra: Crime falls

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There will be increased police patrols in more than 30 London locations until the end of September, ranging from Seven Sisters to Croydon to the West End.

Announcing the initiative, which is aligned with a Home Office national strategy for the summer, the Met released figures for "the first six weeks of this financial year" - broadly, I presume, April and the first third of May - showing what it called "promising reductions" in some types of crime compared to the same period of 2024.

Crime figures, of course, can be deceptive and those compiled by the Met are for offences reported, recorded and notifiable to the Home Office for statistical purposes, which isn't all of them.