Crime 'down by 10%' in England and Wales
Crime against households and adults in England and Wales fell 10% to about eight million incidents in the year to September 2013, government statistics showed.
Police recorded 3.7m offences in year to September
Police recorded 3.7 million offences in the year to September 2013, a decrease of 3% compared with the previous year, the Office for National Statistics has said.
However, police-recorded crime figures were last week stripped of an official "gold standard" mark by the statistics watchdog amid mounting concern they were being "fiddled" by police.
These are the first batch of statistics to be published since the UK Statistics Authority removed the National Statistics designation from all crime data recorded by the police.
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