The Home Secretary said neighbourhood crime has fallen by half since 2010, with the number of burglaries down 55 per cent.
The Daily Express can reveal burglary has fallen by at least a third in 17 counties, including by as much as 59 per cent in Bedfordshire.
The official data – seen by this newspaper – shows falls in some of the country’s biggest police forces including the Metropolitan Police, North Yorkshire, Merseyside, Kent and South Wales.
And Mr Cleverly warned Labour cannot be trusted to “protect our streets”.
Speaking exclusively to the Express, Home Secretary James Cleverly said: “Under the Conservatives our communities are safer. Since 2010 neighbourhood crime has halved, with crimes such as domestic burglary down over 55 per cent and robbery down over 80 per cent.
“We will always take the tough action to clamp down on neighbourhood crime and protect our communities. We have put in place record funding for the police and today have more officers in England and Wales than ever before.
“To get more officers out on the beat we have cut red tape and are tackling anti-social behaviour and shoplifting, whilst gaining agreement from the police that they will pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry to ensure more criminals face justice.
“But complacency is never an option. While Sir Keir’s Labour Party can’t be trusted to protect our streets, we are doubling down on our zero-tolerance approach to crime by giving the police the powers they need to make our neighbourhoods even safer.”
Chiefs will take comfort from the wide variety of forces recording a fall in burglaries.
Among the top four are Bedfordshire, Suffolk, North Wales and Surrey.
Home Office sources said they have overhauled “counting rules” which means records are not being duplicated.
This, policing minister Chris Philp predicted, could save officers 443,000 hours every year.
And chief constables have been ordered to double the number of searches they make using retrospective facial recognition technology to track down known offenders by May.
Sources close to Mr Cleverly also told the Daily Express robbery has fallen 81 per cent since 2010, theft from the person is down 44 per cent and vehicle-related theft is down 39 per cent.
Some 10 police forces have put extra officers on the street to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and frontline bobbies have been ordered to go after more shoplifters.
The Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Festus Akinbusoye, warned that neighbourhoods policing plans would hit the fight against drug gangs and paedophiles.
He said: “If you look in the small print of Labour’s plans, for 13,000 police officers, it is made up of 3,000 officers that have been ring fenced from the current upgrade programme, 4,000 would be PCSOs, 3,000 would be special constables and 3,000 officers will be recruited.
“But in my area, in Bedfordshire, we are one of the most at risk of organised criminal gangs, with a global reach. Around £15m in drugs is trafficked through Bedfordshire every month.
“Surveillance and firearms officers are very highly experienced police officers. If my Chief Constable is being told by the Home Secretary that you must divert these into neighbourhood policing, who will deal with the paedophiles, the organised criminal gangs?
“It’s complete and utter madness. Neighbourhood policing is a different skill set to those who go after the organised criminal gangs.
“It should be local people, in conjunction with the chief constable and the police and crime commissioner, who decide what the priorities are.”
