Metropolitan Force Comparisons
Below are crime rate comparisons for London and the metropolitan districts of England in 2007/08 financial year.
| Police force | Main city | Homicides | Firearms offences | Violence against the person |
Sexual offences | Robbery | Burglary (residential) | Theft of and from motor vehicles |
| London Region | London | 2.2 | 45.3 | 23.2 | 1.2 | 4.9 | 8.0 | 16.0 |
| Greater Manchester | Manchester | 1.9 | 44.6 | 19.3 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 8.3 | 16.7 |
| West Midlands | Birmingham | 1.6 | 37.5 | 20.5 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 6.9 | 13.1 |
| Merseyside | Liverpool | 2.3 | 29.5 | 15.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 6.2 | 10.7 |
| South Yorkshire | Sheffield | 2.1 | 15.0 | 18.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 6.6 | 15.4 |
| West Yorkshire | Leeds | 2.1 | 15.1 | 17.7 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 8.5 | 13.2 |
| Northumbria | Newcastle | 2.1 | 5.6 | 13.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 8.1 |
| England | London | 1.4 | 18.9 | 17.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 5.2 | 11.1 |
Read more about this topic: Crime In London
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