Incidents of serious violent crime have fallen in Lanarkshire during the last year.
Murder, attempted murder and culpable homicide are all down across the county in the last 12 months, according to figures released by Police Scotland.
More than £7.2million worth of drugs have been removed from Lanarkshire’s streets, with cash and criminal assets worth over £930,000 seized by police in targeted operations.
Police Scotland will present its performance report tomorrow.
The figures also show that more than 108 domestic abuse offences were recorded in Lanarkshire since new legislation came into effect last April.
Chief Superintendent Alan Waddell, divisional commander of Lanarkshire, said: “Any drop in crime is welcome news for our communities and I want to assure them of my commitment to continue that decline.
“Police Scotland officers are working incredibly hard across Lanarkshire, engaging with our residents and building their confidence in coming forward to report crime.
“Indeed, I believe that that level of engagement is responsible for our increase in detections which, for this year alone for total crime, is up by more than 1000.
“This is also why we were able to prevent more than £7m worth of drugs from flooding into our communities, ruining lives and bringing misery to countless others’.
“I would like to ask Lanarkshire’s communities to continue to engage with us to help improve their safety and wellbeing.”
