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Good evening. Crime in London has fallen with new figures showing that | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
nearly 50,000 fewer offences were reported last year compared to the | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
previous 12 months. But critics claim the figures are misleading | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
after a string of recent allegations attacking the reliability of | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Metropolitan Police statistics. Here is our home affairs correspondent | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
Guy Smith. These have been the challenges | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
facing the Met, robbery, burglary, violence and even murder. And this | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
has been part of the answer according to the Met, three years of | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
highly visible police operations across London targeting specific | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
problems and it seems to be working. Total crime is down in the past year | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
by more than 6%. Robberies have fallen by a fifth, burglaries by | :01:07. | :01:14. | |
8%. Gun crime has dropped by 17%. Knife crime also has decreased. If | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
we look at the worst crime of all, murder, then compared to other | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
capital cities, London is relatively safe. In particular Ealing, crying | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
falling here by more than 14%. There are a lot of robberies around here. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
I see a lot around. I feel safe in Ealing. I think we have had more | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
police on patrol. It is welcome crime seems to be falling, but it | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
differs across each borough. But the issue is how we are tackling crime | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
and whether we are solving crime. When you look at those figures only | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
one in six is solved in London. But the bigger problem is trust in how | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
police record crime. This officer accused the Met of routinely | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
muddling the figures. Things were being reported as burglaries and we | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
ran the same report and there had been a human intervention by | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
management and those burglaries had disappeared. Recorded crime has | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
fallen dramatically, so you cannot make 7000 robberies disappear. You | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
can't make 8000 burglaries disappear. If you took burglary as | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
an example, even if you do not trust our figures, most people have to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
report it to an insurance company. Yet he did admit, that there was | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
concern, as did his boss earlier this year. We have accepted there | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
are more things to do. A Parliamentary select committee | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
report criticised the police for being less than honest. Ultimately | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
inaccurate figures gives an inaccurate picture of where crime is | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
taking place. Katharine Carpenter has been looking at the figures. How | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
much of a problem is it? It is important the integrity of the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
figures. A force that once people to trust it needs to prove it is | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
keeping to its side of the bargain. Reliable figures are important to | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the Met as well. It is under huge pressure to drive down overall crime | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
by 20%. To do that it needs to build up a true picture and know where it | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
is going to target valuable and scarce resources. There are plenty | :03:48. | :04:04. | |
of non`sinister reasons why figures are not always 100% accurate. A lot | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
of crime is not reported and the Home Office has recategorised some | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
crimes, so it is difficult to draw up a picture of crime trends. But | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
the people who are the victims of crime need to know their experiences | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
are being properly recorded and processed. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Talks aimed at averting Tube strikes next week and the week after have so | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
far failed to make any progress. Workers are currently due to walk | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
out next Monday over proposed ticket office closures, which London | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
Underground claim will improve customer service. Our transport | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
correspondent Tom Edwards reports. This dispute is disrupted the Tube | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
in February. Now the same thing could happen again. This afternoon | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
unions and transport bosses met to try and avert another strike. This | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
is about modernising the Tube, providing increased benefits to our | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
customers, getting more face to face contact with our customers. Instead | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
of people being behind glass, we want people out on the front line | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
helping customers. London Underground wants to close all | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
ticket offices and cut 950 jobs. It claims it has made the changes for | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
the staff there. The RMT union disputes that and says cutting jobs | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
will affect safety. A strike is planned for next Monday for two days | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
and the following week for three days. There has been a change of | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
language from London Underground in an open letter to Londoners. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
It says stations will become personalised customer service | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
centres and we cannot stand by and for its customers to pay for a | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
ticket offices through their fares. What is interesting with the RMT | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
leadership up for grabs, some are saying that election could play a | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
part in these negotiations. Do you think it will have an impact, the | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
leadership? None whatsoever. This is a dispute about the London | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Underground and the staff who work on it. It is what it has been about | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
since the 21st of November when the Underground told us they had to save | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
?4.2 billion and they had to close every London Underground ticket | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
office. All staff had to reapply for their jobs. This is the first wave. | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
These talks will go on all week. If it is not resolved, expect much more | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
of this from Monday night. It just leaves me to hand you over to | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Wembley for the weather. As Wendy. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
We will not completely escape the showers. Any showers we have seen | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
late afternoon will fizzle out tonight. We may have a few missed or | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
fog patches forming here or there. Temperatures will be eight or nine | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
degrees in urban areas, so it is a mild night. We start the day | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
tomorrow with plenty of cloud drifting to and fro. We will see | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
some sunny spells and there will be a breeze from the South East. It | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
will be 18 degrees in London, and that might trigger off a few showers | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
in the afternoon. This whether Frank is moving through, but the outlook | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
is not looking too bad. That's weather front. | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
It is never too early to think about next weekend and I will be doing | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
that in a couple of | :07:46. | :07:46. |