Jo thanks and congratulates Sergeant Katey Martin and all of the Darwin Safer Neighbourhood Team for making London's largest ward officially the safest of Greater London's 624 wards.

The latest crime figures released show Darwin ward in Bromley as being the ward with the fewest reported crimes, with 207 for the nine month period April to December 2010.  The next safest wards are Bromley's Shortlands ward and Kingston's Surbiton Hill ward, both with 223 crimes during the same period.  Overall crime in Bromley fell by 9.4% between April and December 2010, from 18,210 offences to 16,493 offences.

Sergeant Katey Martin, head of the Darwin Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: "These figures really do speak for themselves and this is exactly the result we want to achieve through Safer Neighbourhood policing, where officers are responding to public priorities in the place where it matters most. These figures demonstrates the commitment of the Team to resolving local problems in the most robust way possible. The challenge now is to improve on this performance, which we will be working hard to do. Darwin is the safest ward in London and I want to keep it that way".

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