Figures from the Office for National Statistics show a dramatic reduction in the number of recorded crimes for the period from April 2012 to March 2013, while detection rates for the same period were the highest since the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002.

The figures show that the police recorded 3.7 million offences during the period, a decrease of 7% compared with the previous year.

Victim-based crime accounted for 83% of all police recorded crime (3.1 million offences) and fell by 9% in the year ending March 2013 compared with the previous year. The volume of offences recorded in that category is equivalent to 55 recorded offences per 1,000 of population.

Other crimes against society recorded by the police (402,615 offences) showed a decrease of 10% compared with the previous year.

Within victim-based crime there were decreases across all the main categories of recorded crime compared with the previous year, except for theft from the person (up 9%) and sexual offences (1% increase). The latter increase is thought to be partly a ‘Yewtree effect’, whereby greater numbers of victims of sexual offences have come forward to report historical offences to the police.

Figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which are based on interviews with a representative sample of households and resident adults in the year ending March 2013, show an even greater drop of 9% compared with the previous year’s survey. This latest estimate is the lowest since the survey began in 1981 and is now less than half its peak level in 1995.

A separate set of figures released by the Home office show that excluding fraud, there were 3,502,320 offences, of which 1,012,151 were detected. The overall detection rate was 28.9%, compared to 28.6% the previous year. Fraud was excluded because of a change in the way it is recorded.

The Home Office said in a statement: “As in previous years, there is a wide variation in overall detection rates for different types of crime, with the highest detection rate of 94% for drug offences (which also saw the largest overall increase: up 1.3%) and the lowest rate of 16% for offences of criminal damage and arson. The offence group with the largest decrease in the overall detection rate was public order offences: down 3.1%.

In the period, 16.6% of offences were detected by charge or summons – a slight rise from 16.4% in 2011/12). The rate for all other methods of sanction detections fell slightly between 2011/12 and 2012/13. Cautions, as the second most common detection method, were down 0.1% (5.3% to 5.2%) and the largest decrease was for Penalty Notices for Disorder – down 0.2% points from 1.9% to 1.7%.

According to the statement, the slight increase in detection rate is partly due to the increased uptake of locally based community resolutions and the application of restorative justice. Ironically, the release of the figures came on the same day as a report from HM Inspector of Constabulary warned that cuts in budgets could threaten the effectiveness of neighbourhood policing in preventing crime.

HM Inspector of Constabulary, Zoë Billingham, said: “Overall, the response to the financial challenge by police forces has been good, and we recognise the hard work of police officers, PCSOs and staff which underpins this success.

“However, we have found a considerable variation in the approaches taken by forces – and in some cases, this leaves us with concerns about how some forces will manage in the face of further cuts. We also have some concerns that neighbourhood policing risks being eroded as forces change how they deliver local policing.”

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