HAMPSHIRE Police have rolled back the clock more than 30 years to record the lowest annual burglary rate since the early 1970s - but violent crime rose by 9.3 per cent.
Police have detected more crimes than ever before and arrested more people in the year ending on 31 March than in any other.
Chief Constable Paul Kernaghan said: "With burglary at the lowest rate for 31 years and car crime down to 1981 levels we are reducing the numbers of people who become victims of crime in our communities every day.
"Good policing will not, by itself, produce the safe communities we all desire.
"What happens to the criminals we catch and put before the courts?
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