London sees lowest variety of homicides in over a decade | EUROtoday

London has recorded its lowest variety of homicides in over a decade, new figures from the Metropolitan Police verify. The capital noticed 97 homicides in 2025, an 11 per cent lower from the 109 reported in 2024, marking the bottom whole since 2014 when 95 had been registered.

Despite London’s increasing inhabitants over the previous decade, the Met highlighted that final yr’s murder price per capita was the bottom on document, at 1.1 per 100,000 residents. This determine considerably undercuts charges in different international cities, resembling New York (2.8), Berlin (3.2), and Paris (1.6) per 100,000, the pressure famous.

Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley mentioned: “London’s record‑low homicide rate is the result of relentless work: arresting 1,000 more offenders each month, using innovative technology such as live facial recognition to solve more crime, and taking precise action against the most dangerous gangs, organised criminals, and predatory men who target women and children.

“The results speak for themselves: fewer lives lost, fewer families shattered. Every murder is a tragedy, but we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to drive down serious violence.”

The figures launched by the Met come as the most recent crime figures for England and Wales additionally present a fall within the variety of homicides to their lowest degree since present strategies of reporting started in 2003.

Some 518 homicides had been recorded by police within the yr to June 2025, based on the Office for National Statistics, a drop of 6% from 552 within the earlier yr and 27% beneath the pre-pandemic whole of 710 in 2019/20.

The Met mentioned its work tackling murder has been significantly robust in curbing violence amongst younger folks, with the fewest variety of victims aged below 25 this century, and a 73% lower within the variety of teenage victims since 2021, dropping from 30 to eight in 2025.

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The mayor of London’s violence discount unit, arrange in 2019, is believed to have been a part of such efforts, by delivering 550,000 interventions to cease younger folks being drawn into gangs.

Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan mentioned: “Many people have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a very different story.

“It’s clear that our sustained focus on being both tough on crime and tough on the complex causes of crime is working.”

The Met additionally mentioned public confidence in policing was rising, with 81% of Londoners ranking the pressure as doing or honest job regionally.

But it follows a vetting evaluate printed on Thursday that confirmed 131 officers and workers on the Met, together with two serial rapists, dedicated crimes or misconduct after they weren’t correctly vetted.

It discovered that 1000’s of law enforcement officials and workers weren’t correctly checked, amid strain throughout a nationwide recruitment drive from July 2019 to March 2023.

The Met mentioned it has taken motion to scrub up the workforce and tighten vetting requirements, and was being open and clear about some historic practices that don’t meet present requirements.