Don Foster has backed Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker’s statement that police reform is working and crime is falling thanks to the Liberal Democrats in Government.
Locally, crime rates in Avon and Somerset have dropped by 8.9% in the last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced.
The yearly crime rate figure has fallen from 106,525 in September 2012 to 97,049 in September 2013.
Figures show crime against households is down by seven per cent across the country compared with the same time last year and has hit the lowest level since the ONS record began in 1981.
Crime has been lower under the Coalition Government than during every single year Labour was in power – it has also halved since hitting peak levels in 1995.
Commenting, Don Foster said: “The drop in the number of crimes is great news for my constituents and is very welcome.
“It shows we are tackling crime better than at any time since 1981 and are providing better results for people than Labour ever did.”
The figures were announced following the launch earlier this month of the National Crime Agency aimed at tackling the growing threat of serious and organised crime.
Commenting further, Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker said: “Police reform is working and crime is falling. Recorded crime has dropped yet again and now by more than ten per cent under the Coalition Government.
“People have the right to go about their daily lives without being scared of becoming victims of crime, and it is Lib Dems in the Coalition Government who are helping to make their lives safer.”
