Police have reduced car crime at one of the city's hotspots

The numbers of burglaries, car thefts and serious assaults tumbled - although more people were robbed.

But about 100 people become a crime victim every day and the city's crime rate is still higher than many similar cities across the country.

Police said the figures fell because they were putting more effort into places with the most serious problems.

Alan Given, chief executive of the city's Crime and Drugs Partnership, said the Gateway Hotel on Nuthall Road had been the city's car crime hotspot until recently.

'Startlingly good'

"We've put in some extra patrols in the short term. We were suffering perhaps one crime a day there. Now that's been reduced to almost nothing at all.

"If you can bring down crime in the high crime areas, the message will spread that for the people it's good to live here and for the criminals it's not safe to work here."

Nottingham North MP Graham Allen, chair of One Nottingham, which brings together the public, private, community and voluntary sectors, paid tribute to everyone involved in bringing down crime.

"For many years, news on crime in the city of Nottingham has left something to be desired."