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The Home Secretary stated neighbourhood crime has fallen by half since 2010, with the variety of burglaries down 55 per cent.

The Daily Express can reveal housebreaking has fallen by no less than a 3rd in 17 counties, together with by as a lot as 59 per cent in Bedfordshire.

The official information – seen by this newspaper – reveals falls in among the nation’s largest police forces together with the Metropolitan Police, North Yorkshire, Merseyside, Kent and South Wales.

And Mr Cleverly warned Labour can’t be trusted to “protect our streets”.

Speaking completely to the Express, Home Secretary James Cleverly stated: “Under the Conservatives our communities are safer. Since 2010 neighbourhood crime has halved, with crimes such as domestic burglary down over 55 per cent and robbery down over 80 per cent.

“We will always take the tough action to clamp down on neighbourhood crime and protect our communities. We have put in place record funding for the police and today have more officers in England and Wales than ever before.

“To get more officers out on the beat we have cut red tape and are tackling anti-social behaviour and shoplifting, whilst gaining agreement from the police that they will pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry to ensure more criminals face justice.

“But complacency is never an option. While Sir Keir’s Labour Party can’t be trusted to protect our streets, we are doubling down on our zero-tolerance approach to crime by giving the police the powers they need to make our neighbourhoods even safer.”

Chiefs will take consolation from the big variety of forces recording a fall in burglaries.

Among the highest 4 are Bedfordshire, Suffolk, North Wales and Surrey.

Home Office sources stated they’ve overhauled “counting rules” which suggests information will not be being duplicated.

This, policing minister Chris Philp predicted, may save officers 443,000 hours yearly.

And chief constables have been ordered to double the variety of searches they make utilizing retrospective facial recognition know-how to trace down recognized offenders by May.

Sources near Mr Cleverly additionally advised the Daily Express theft has fallen 81 per cent since 2010, theft from the particular person is down 44 per cent and vehicle-related theft is down 39 per cent.

Some 10 police forces have put additional officers on the road to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and frontline bobbies have been ordered to go after extra shoplifters.

The Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Festus Akinbusoye, warned that neighbourhoods policing plans would hit the struggle in opposition to drug gangs and paedophiles.

He stated: “If you look in the small print of Labour’s plans, for 13,000 police officers, it is made up of 3,000 officers that have been ring fenced from the current upgrade programme, 4,000 would be PCSOs, 3,000 would be special constables and 3,000 officers will be recruited.

“But in my area, in Bedfordshire, we are one of the most at risk of organised criminal gangs, with a global reach. Around £15m in drugs is trafficked through Bedfordshire every month.

“Surveillance and firearms officers are very highly experienced police officers. If my Chief Constable is being told by the Home Secretary that you must divert these into neighbourhood policing, who will deal with the paedophiles, the organised criminal gangs?

“It’s complete and utter madness. Neighbourhood policing is a different skill set to those who go after the organised criminal gangs.

“It should be local people, in conjunction with the chief constable and the police and crime commissioner, who decide what the priorities are.”