CRIME in Thornbury and district fell by 26 percent between April and December last year compared with the corresponding period in 2003.
The reduction equated to a drop of 196 reported crimes, Town Councillors heard this week.
Police sector deputy Sgt Simon Ellis told a recent meeting of the council's finance and policy committee that the figures had risen slightly in January but one individual had been identified as being responsible for the increase and measures had been taken to deal with the problem.
Committee chairman Cllr Shirley Holloway said: "Crime is down quite considerably and we congratulate Sgt Ellis and his team for what has been achieved."
Councillors also heard that police had spent a day at Castle School discusing acdeptable behaviour contracts with children who habitually misbehaved inside and outside of school and their parents.
Sgt Ellis said recently appointed head teacher Melanie Warnes had made officers most welcome.
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