Cut crime 15 per cent, police told

Anthony Butcher · 25-11-2004, 01:05 AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...373569,00.html

Quote:

POLICE must cut crime by 15 per cent and convict thousands more criminals under a new three-year plan.

The Home Office is also setting up a national police improvement agency to get forces to work together and oversee changes in police intelligence systems after the highly critical report by Sir Michael Bichard on the Soham murders.

The agency will have powers to force chief constables to follow national plans and ensure that forces improve their detection rates.

The improvement gency is outlined in a national policing plan issued by the Home Office. It calls on forces to cut the 11.7 million crimes reported annually in the British Crime Survey by more than a million by 2007-08. Police are being told to concentrate on volume crime, including burglary, car crime and street robbery, but also to reduce violent crime and criminal damage.

What exactly do they think that the police have been doing until now? This is just too stupid for words.

mkpdavies · 25-11-2004, 01:23 AM

So now they are under pressure to hit this target. They have two choices -

a) Massage the stats, which is probably getting quite hard now, as they are already over-massaged.

b) Haul in a few easy targets to bump the figures up. Expect motorists to be thrown in prison for going 2 mph over the limit soon!

Where does the figure 15% come from anyway, probably straight out of Blunketts ****.

Why can't they just focus on making the police efficient, well equiped, well trained and trusted. Don't these mentally challenged morans understand that results will follow if you get the basics right?

25-11-2004, 01:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,604	So now they are under pressure to hit this target. They have two choices - a) Massage the stats, which is probably getting quite hard now, as they are already over-massaged. b) Haul in a few easy targets to bump the figures up. Expect motorists to be thrown in prison for going 2 mph over the limit soon! Where does the figure 15% come from anyway, probably straight out of Blunketts ****. Why can't they just focus on making the police efficient, well equiped, well trained and trusted. Don't these mentally challenged morans understand that results will follow if you get the basics right? __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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