Home Secretary's Statement on the Latest Crime Statistics / Home Office, 23 October 2008
http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/HS-statement-crime-stats
"This is a ministerial statement by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to the House of Commons on 23 October 2008. She states that crime is at its lowest level since the British Crime Survery began but that she remains concerned about serious violence and knife crime."