When business owner Jim Robinson noticed some of his planters had been trashed, he rang police. The reply reassured him. "They were able to tell me that it was all in-hand, they knew who had done it and the culprits would be coming by to apologise the next day. They even did an hour of voluntary service as repatriation," he told WalesOnline.
If this isn't what always happens in Wales where the nation's police forces are hard stretched and are often given a difficult time about their crime detection rates, it might be because Mr Robinson lives in the leafy community of Killay. This largely residential community of 5,000 people four miles to the west of Swansea city centre, and often seen as a gateway to Gower, is officially the safest place in Wales.
There were just 101 crimes of all types committed here last year, the equivalent of one for every 50 people who live here in 12 months. To give you a comparison, one community in Cardiff saw 517 bike thefts alone - and that's before you add in all the other kinds of crime. You can see all the data here.
