article_snippet.sent: The latest ONS figures showed that the number of murders and manslaughter cases in England and Wales has fallen to Wales lowest level for 38 years.
article_snippet.sent: Police recorded 515 homicides last year, 37 fewer than in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: The number of crimes logged by police is still 20 per cent lower than in 2008-09 – under the last Labour government.
article_snippet.sent: The picture was complicated by figures from the Crime Survey of England and Wales, which found a 7 per cent fall in overall crime to 6.9million incidents, the lowest level since 1981.
article_snippet.sent: Home Secretary Theresa May said the data showed 'police reform is working' and that crime 'has never been lower, meaning families are safer'.
article_snippet.sent: But Home Secretary Theresa May Labour shadow, Yvette Cooper, claimed that the ONS figures 'expose the shocking complacency of David Cameron and Theresa May over crime and policing'.