Two out of three Londoners feel crime in the capital is rising, according to a survey carried out by the London assembly Conservatives.

Residents in all of the city's 32 boroughs were asked to respond to the crime survey which took place between January and March of this year.

The Conservative group say this is the biggest crime study undertaken in the capital. They publish the results the day after Conservative party leader Michael Howard set out his party's plans to combat "yob crime".

The results claim that two out of three Londoners feel crime is rising, and that it will either stay the same or get worse in the coming year.

More than one in three families said they had been the victims of crime recently.

Some 45 per cent were "less than satisfied" with the service they received from the police when they reported crime.

And 26 per cent of those asked said they feel there are less police on the streets.

Fear

Richard Barnes, policing spokesman for the assembly Tories said: "This survey shows crime and the fear of crime are never far from Londoners' thoughts.

"The task now is to address the concerns raised in this survey. That means working to release police from the burden of paperwork so that they can get back to where they belong – fighting crime on our streets.

"It means police working ever more closely with communities to build relations in an effort to tackle people’s fear of crime. And it means the police improving the service they provide when the public reports a crime"