Alastair Greig

London is far safer that many cities across the US but what is less well known is that when it comes to violent crime London in safer than Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels on a per capita bases so it's bad reputation is often unfair ... There have been some major crackdowns on phone snatching, which have been successful, but what you won't see in the details is that a lot of the officers working on those cases would ordinarily be working in drug trafficking, knife crime investigations teams, and so that resource is being pulled from elsewhere."

“We’re in uncharted territory here in a social media era […] Governments, police and public servants are facing the question of how to get their message across. There’s a really important question here for policing decisionmakers of: ‘to what extent is our role to make the public safe and to what extent is it to make them feel safe?’ Those are not the same things and will have significant ramifications for how we spend on communications, on PR teams – measures that do not in fact make people safer but heavily impact perception.”

Ultimately, no vehicle security is going to be perfect. Essentially, both are evolving and competing with one another, with some manufacturers investing a lot in security upgrades to make those vehicles harder to steal - pushing the thieves to switch to other makes and models. This constant to-ing and fro-ing is partly why theft rates rise and fall between makes and models over the years."