Crime and Community Safety

The Mayor of London committed to developing a London Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure in his 2021 manifesto. This was to help measure London’s success as a place to live and work for all its residents. It would counteract the fact that, for years, London’s success has been mostly measured only in terms of its material wealth.  After a comprehensive and thorough development...

The Mayor of London committed to developing a London Wellbeing and Sustainability Measure in his 2021 manifesto. This was to help measure London’s success as a place to live and work for all its residents. It would counteract the fact that, for years, London’s success has been mostly measured only in terms of its material wealth.  GLA City Intelligence led the...

This Fire Facts publication - first published in 2018 - provides a range of statistical data about fire deaths in London. It includes a time series of data back to 1966, data for fire deaths by London borough, where people die, what causes the fires where people die, plus ethnicity and gender data about those who die in fires.

Each year, London's fire and rescue authority is required to prepare an annual Statement of Assurance (SoA) in accordance with the Fire and Rescue National Framework for England. This is to " provide annual assurance on financial, governance and operational matters ". The format of the Statement follows guidance produced by the government (May 2013). Governance of London's...

Our Fire Facts report Fires in Greater London provides the most in depth review of fire data in LFB's 150 year history. The publicly available data (2000 to 2021) is divided into four sections: long term trends, where fires happen, fires in the home and fires in other buildings. The published Fire Facts is available on the LFB website. The underpinning data for the publication for the latest report is available...

This page is about the Assessment of Local Risks (AoLR) which supported the Brigade's London Safety Plan 2017 (LSP2017). This 2017 plan has now been replaced by the Brigade's new Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP) - Your London Fire Brigade: our plan for 2023-29. This new plan, plus the Assessment of Risk which supports, it are available on the LFB...

This Fire Facts report sets out the key information on the response times to the 999 calls received by the London Fire Brigade. It includes data and analysis on the various stages of emergency response from how long it takes people to call the fire brigade when a fire starts to how long it takes to handle the 999 call and...

The GLA has conducted an analysis of the metrics accompanying the DLUHC White Paper on Levelling Up. Levelling up will not be achieved by levelling down because London has deep economic links with the rest of the UK. There should be separate missions and metrics on improving productivity and tackling disadvantage. This would allow a clearer focus on poverty alleviation. Strategy and policy development,...

This page contains analyses of serious youth violence conducted by the GLA’s Strategic Crime Analysis team and MOPAC Evidence and Insight Team to inform work to prevent and reduce serious violence affecting young people in London. The page contains 4 separate analyses. The first two analyses in 2018 were produced in support of an over-arching report ‘Progressing a Public Health Approach...

Understanding the evidence has been critical in supporting the development of the draft Police and Crime Plan.  The overarching aim of this product is to provide an overview of the potential policing and crime challenges London can expect to encounter over the coming years and insights in how to respond effectively to these.