He added that officers worked "through the night" to facilitate the clean-up operation and ensure roads were reopened. London hosts a New Year's Day parade today.
Celebrations were repeated across Britain.
In Edinburgh, an estimated 80,000 people listened as rock band Simple Minds headlined Concert in the Gardens, under the shadow of the city's castle.
Fireworks were released every hour from 9pm until midnight. Prior to midnight Peter Irvine, artistic director of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, said: "There's a moon in the sky, it's not actually cold and it's not raining."
The celebrations continue today with sled dog races at Holyrood Park and a triathlon around the city.
Jim Kerr, the singer in Simple Minds, told BBC Reporting Scotland: "We have played some iconic gigs, like Live Aid, but I think when they built Edinburgh, they built it with Hogmanay in mind, because it's perfect for this kind of event."
Emergency services in some areas of the south of England said that there was a marked increase in calls last night.
South East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb), which handles 999 calls from Kent, Sussex and Surrey, took 1,544 calls between 10pm on Monday and 4am on Tuesday morning - a rise of more than 20 per cent on the same period last year.
On Monday, Secamb officials urged people to use the service wisely and only call when absolutely necessary. Last year a large number of calls were due to people falling over, suffering breathing difficulties or being injured in fights.
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