‘82% of burglaries unsolved by Met Police’

FIGURES reveal 82% of burglaries went unsolved by the Metropolitan Police in London across the 2022/2023 financial year, according to the Home Office.

Data shows 47,050 burglaries in London were closed without a suspect being identified.

This makes the Met the third worst-performing police force in the country after South Yorkshire and Hampshire, where 84% and 83% go unsolved.

A Met spokesperson said: “Officers are attending 9 out of 10 burglaries.”

When asked about the rate of unsolved burglaries, they said: “The latest figures (1 April to 4 June) show there were 6,470 reported residential burglaries in London. Of these, officers attended 6,070 of the crimes. This is 94%.”

Across England and Wales, nearly 77% of all burglaries went unsolved in that same time period, and an average of 6% of burglary cases resulted in a suspect being charged or summoned.

In 2022, the Met Police said it would attend all reports of burglary in London.