LONDON (AFP) - The surge in immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain has not led to any rise in crime, senior police officials said in a report made public.

The report, prepared for the Association of Chief Police Officers by two chief constables and seen by The Guardian, says that offending rates in Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian and other immigrant communities are in line with the rate of offending in the general population.
The findings follow a spate of alarmist media reports suggesting that crime rates and rising and blaming immigrants.
The report will be presented to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith when she meets with senior police officers on Thursday.
According to Home Officers figures, police recorded a nine percent drop in crime in England and Wales in the year to September 2007.
The report by Grahame Maxwell, chief constable of North Yorkshire, and Peter Fahy, who leads the Cheshire force, is mostly based on police data from England and Wales.
In the copy of the report seen by The Guardian, the officers say that while overall the country has accommodated the ""huge influx"" in immigration with little rise in community tension, ""in some areas sheer numbers, resentment and misunderstanding, have created problems.""
The report calls for new agreements with eastern European countries to share information on less serious crimes.
It adds that the areas that have come most under pressure from the new migrants include Slough, Cambridigeshire and Lincolnshire.