{"id":339269,"date":"2025-08-12T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:49:12","slug":"knife-crime-and-other-offences-fall-in-london-says-sir-sadiq-khan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339269\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife crime and other offences fall in London, says Sir Sadiq Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Office for National Statistics, many crimes recorded against people increased between the years ending June 2015 and March 2025, including violence against the person (40%), possession of offensive weapons (23%), sexual offences (75%) and theft from the person (207%).<\/p>\n

Reform UK Assembly Member Alex Wilson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service <\/a>: “If Sadiq Khan thinks London is getting more safe, he needs to get out more. <\/p>\n

“The idea he points to incremental changes in just a few categories is ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

“The long-term trends under Sadiq Khan are clear: knife crime is up, theft is up, shoplifting is up, fare evasion is up, phone thefts at the highest ever seen, and just 2% of burglaries in outer London result in a charge or summons.<\/p>\n

The analysis of the figures comes soon after the Metropolitan Police laid out proposals to close almost half of police station front counters in London<\/a> – a move critics said would have a “devastating” impact on Londoners.<\/p>\n

The Met’s commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has said despite funding increases, the forces faces a \u00a3260m shortfall and will have to reduce its workforce.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, he said the force was becoming “more capable” and was focused on “driving down crime on issues that matter most to Londoners”.<\/p>\n

The Mayor of London has pledged a policing blitz on London’s 20 most blighted town centres for shoplifting, robbery, knife crime and antisocial behaviour this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Office for National Statistics, many crimes recorded against people increased between the years ending June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339269","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\/115017532313600426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339269","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=339269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}