The Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan sets out his priorities for policing, crime and community safety in London for 2025 to 2029. It builds on reductions in crimes like homicide, violence causing injury, and burglary since he came to office.

His agenda is clear – to make London a safer city for all, by being tough on crime and tough on the complex causes of crime.

The key aims of his plan are:

• reducing violence and criminal exploitation  
• building safer, more confident communities  
• supporting and overseeing reform of the Met 
• improving the criminal justice system and supporting victims.

The police cannot do this alone. The plan sets out how the Met Police will work with MOPAC, local councils, health services, criminal justice partners and TfL to reduce and prevent crime in London now and into the future. 

Since coming into office, the Mayor has more than doubled City Hall’s financial support for policing. This year alone, he’s backing the Met with record funding of £1.16 billion.

In the first three months of 2025, we’ve seen reductions in offences including knife crime, theft from the person and robbery in London.

Stopping repeat offending is essential to making London safer for all. The Mayor is firm that behaviour change should focus on offenders, not their victims.

Since 2019, he has invested £6.7m into state-of-the-art GPS technology to monitor those released from prison, preventing them from reoffending.

Data has shown that this approach is working to reduce repeat offending. The most recent statistics show the proven reoffending rate is 5.3 percent lower in the year ending September 2023, compared to the year ending June 2016.

Domestic abuse offenders and stalkers are now tagged after prison release. So far, it’s meant 204 domestic abuse perpetrators were recalled back to prison for breaking licence conditions. This approach is helping to lower the risk victims face when the offender is released and changing offender behaviour.

Evaluation of the London Knife Crime Tagging pilot showed that, over two years, the level of reoffending by those tagged was five per cent lower than offenders who were not tagged.

We’re also funding vital services to support victims and survivors.

The Victim’s Commissioner, Claire Waxman, is working to ensure the Criminal Justice Service truly functions for victims, helping them to recover and receive justice. 

Find out more about victim-support services we’re funding.