John Howell
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(10 years, 4 months ago)
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The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mrs Theresa May)
I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that we have scrapped national targets, improved police accountability, reformed pay and conditions, abolished bureaucracy, set up the National Crime Agency and College of Policing and brought in elected police and crime commissioners. Those are the most radical reforms in the history of policing.
John Howell
I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. Will she also confirm that crime has fallen to the lowest level on record?
Mrs May
Again, I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that crime is down on both the reported measures of recorded crime and the crime survey. Recorded crime is down by more than 10% under this Government, and that is backed up by the independent crime survey, which shows that crime has halved since 1995 and is indeed at its lowest level since the survey began in 1981.