Owen Bowcott guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 January 2009 11.30 GMT
Overall crime in England and Wales fell by 3% in the third quarter of last year despite a sharp rise in the number of robberies involving knives, Home Office statistics published today showed.
The figures showed a continuing decline in the levels of vehicle-related theft, criminal damage, violent crime and sexual offences between July and September last year compared with a year earlier.
But they revealed that the number of domestic burglaries recorded by police rose by 4% in the same period, the number of robberies involving knives leapt by 18%, drug offences were up by 9% and the level of fraud and forgery shot up by 16%.
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