Crime in Ealing has fallen more than 14 per cent overall according to new figures released by the Met Police this week.

It shows 25,784 crimes were reported in the borough between April 1, 2013 and March 31 this year, compared to 30,003 in the previous 12 months.

However, figures for Ealing show there have been increases in homicide, rape, other sexual offences, domestic crime, homophobic crime and Islamaphobic crime.

These increases are reflected across the capital and have mainly been attributed to more victims reporting the offences.

In Ealing there have been falls in burglary, violence against the person, robbery against the person, gun crime and motor vehicle crime.

The borough fares better than the capital on the whole, which saw crime fall by 9.4 per cent. Other nearby boroughs have also seen larger than average falls in crime.

Kensington and Chelsea is down 13.9 per cent, Hammersmith and Fulham has fallen by 13.1 per cent, Hounslow and Westminster are both down 13 per cent.

Ealing Borough Commander Nev Nolan said: “We have seen an overall decrease in property crime.

“We will continue to make use of all Metropolitan Police Service specialist resources across Ealing in addition to our dedicated borough teams to make further progress and ultimately fewer victims.

“Operations Cubo (an initiative to crush cars of uninsured drivers), Ringtone (phone crime) and Big Wing (mass co-ordinated police operations) are to name but a few of the many pro-active activities we undertake across the borough to keep Ealing safe.”

Speaking about the increase of rape in London, a Met Police spokesman, said: “We have worked very hard with communities and partners to increase reporting and we believe this suggests that more victims have confidence to report these serious offences to police.”

The capital-wide rise in domestic abuse is also attributed to more victims coming forward, and the expanding of the definition of domestic abuse to include younger victims. Growing confidence in crime reporting is also used to explain the increase in racist and religious hate crime.