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Kit Malthouse (Chairman): I will, but he pays little attention --Jenny Jones (AM): And James [Cleverly]. And him.Kit Malthouse (Chairman): -- but I will. All right. As I say, we have got a lot to getthrough. Can we move on to the Commissioner’s report? All happy? OK. Let us moveon.Sir Paul Stephenson (Commissioner, MPS): Since we last met the Home Office, asyou know, has released its quarterly crime figures and you have a report in front of youthat is a performance report for the first five months of this financial year. What I will betalking about is six months because, since we did the report, we have September. Thenormal tale in truth.Total notifiable offences continues to be down, just by 0.3% but, actually, that is over1,000 crimes. The good news there is that continues to be the lowest level of totalreported offences in London since 1998.Residential burglary offences are down by 8.7%. Motor vehicle crime - and this issomething I mentioned at the last MPA - is slightly up by 1.3%.Most serious violence combined with assault with injury. You will see in the report thereis a narrative around that. We think that is the most reliable indicator. That is down by4.4% which is good news.Overall gun crime is down by 262 offences, that is over 14%. Obviously less in numbersbut higher percentages. Importantly, within that, incidents where firearms have beendischarged, is down by 8.3%, 37 fewer occasions. I do think that is good news but, ofcourse, there is some bad news to come in a moment when we talk about what hashappened with two very young people. That is clearly pleasing but the challenge over thelong time is to maintain that downward trend, particularly on gun crime.Other reported hate crimes. This is a continuing theme during this performance year, thisfinancial year. They are down. Racist and religious crime down by 507 offences andhomophobic crime down, but only marginally down, by 12 offences. I always stress, atthis point, we are talking about iceberg crimes here and we know there is significantunder reporting so we will do everything we can to continue to get people to report thatand have confidence in our services.Importantly, there have been 32 fewer people that have died from road traffic accidentsduring this financial year compared with the same year. We would still say there are fartoo many deaths but 32 fewer victims, a reduction of over 34%, is a very significantreduction, and thank goodness for that.www.merrillcorp.com13