Three of the candidates for London’s Mayor have clashed over crime levels in the capital during a televised debate.
Ken Livingstone, the Labour incumbent, said the capital’s murder rate had decreased by 28% over five years.
Conservative Boris Johnson said he would get more police on the street by taking bureaucracy “off their backs”.
Lib Dem Brian Paddick, a former senior Met officer, said many members of the public “don’t trust the police enough to phone up, even anonymously”.
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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
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