Tower Hamlets register the most crime in a month so far this year<\/a> with 3,352.\n<\/p>\n\n This was the first month\u00a0in 2025 that Newham had not experienced\u00a0the highest crime count in the east of the capital.\n<\/p>\n
\n However in July, Newham was back to topping the list with 3,657 reported crimes.\n<\/p>\n
\n There were more than\u00a01,000 cases of theft (1,202) and violence against the person (1,053).\n<\/p>\n
\n Vehicle offences (365) and drug offences (240) were the next top contributors and both registered more reports than in June.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tower Hamlets saw the second most reported crime in July with 3,389 – a fractional increase from the previous month.\n<\/p>\n
\n A total of 997 reports were made of violence against the person and 995 were made of theft.\n<\/p>\n
\n Drug offences and public order offences each registered 252 reports.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tower Hamlets had the highest number of reported sexual offences in east London last month with a total of 120.\n<\/p>\n
\n The borough with the third most criminal reports was Redbridge with 2,126 – up by 3.6pc from June.\n<\/p>\n
\n Violence against the person and theft were both up from June and were the main contributors to the borough’s crime count.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite the overall rise, drug offences were down by 10.23pc to 114 and vehicle offences were down by 7.22pc to 231.\n<\/p>\n
\n Waltham Forest was next in the July ranking with 2,076 – a small\u00a0rise of 3.23pc from June.\n<\/p>\n
\n Theft and violence against the person were again the two most recurring crime types with 576 and 562 respective reports.\n<\/p>\n
\n Vehicle offences, public order offences and drug offences were the next most common crimes with 237, 165\u00a0and 141\u00a0cases.\n<\/p>\n
\n Havering has seen the lowest crime count for the previous six months of 2025 but in July, it registered 1,823 reports – 55 more than Barking and Dagenham.\n<\/p>\n
\n Havering’s crime count was up by 2.94pc from June and saw increases in violence against the person (4.81pc), drug offences (7.69pc) and robbery with a significant 44.68pc rise.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the borough also saw drops in some crime types such as sexual offences (10.16pc) and burglary (4.34pc).\n<\/p>\n
\n For the first time in the past six months, Barking and Dagenham registered the lowest monthly crime count in east London.\n<\/p>\n
\n The borough saw a total of 1,768 crimes reported, which was an increase of two on\u00a0June, according to the police figures.\n<\/p>\n
\n Violence against the person and theft were the two most frequent crime types with 653 and 301 reports respectively.\n<\/p>\n
\n Violence was up fractionally from the previous month whilst theft saw one less report than June.\n<\/p>\n
\n Drug offences, sexual offences and arson and criminal damage each rose from June whilst burglary and vehicle offences dropped.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East London as a whole saw a 4.03 per cent increase in reported crime from 14,263 offences\u00a0in June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115016455148619548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}