Crime Levels

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 19 March 2012.

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Photo of Rob Wilson Rob Wilson Conservative, Reading East 2:30, 19 March 2012

Despite the Opposition’s scaremongering, visible front-line policing in the Thames Valley has risen by more than 11% in the past two years, while recorded crime has fallen by 11%. Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Chief Constable Sara Thornton and her team on demonstrating that it is possible to reduce crime while cutting bureaucracy and cutting budgets?