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FOUR out of FIVE- BURGLERS

get away Scot-Free.

Daily Mail

Friday, November 25, 2005

James Slack

Home Affairs Editor

POLICE are failing to even identify a suspect- let alone catch one - in more than

[8] out of [10]

Burglaries and Car crimes,

the Government admitted yesterday.

[Yet we all hear how the THOUGHT POLICE seem to have endless time to chase up innocent citizens on matters, which should be none of their concern].

As a result, fewer than 5 per cent of break-ins and 2.8 per cent of vehicle crimes are being solved in some police force areas.

[And with the Government’s intention to amalgamate police forces there will be even more loss of local accountability and less knowledge of the locality by outsiders from other police forces.]

The figures emerged after the Government surveyed eight police teams, or Basic Command Units.

Details of the Forces involved were withheld by the Home Office, but officials said they represented some of the best and worst detection rates in the country.

The Report, released yesterday, says some police teams are not bothering to send officers to reports of car crime

In the worst area, initial response officers were sent to only 4.1 per cent of stolen car reports -1 in every 25 -while the best managed 53.9 per cent.

Even some domestic burglaries do not result in officers being sent to the scene, the study says.

While the best forces sent officers in 99 per cent of cases, the worst response rate was 89.4 per cent.

The best chance police had of apprehending a criminal was to catch them ‘red-handed’. Of the crimes solved,

34 per cent of suspects were arrested at or near the scene.

The Report says this shows how crucial it is for police to attend quickly.

But even in cases where the burglary or theft is spotted by the victim or a member of the public within minutes of taking place, police are still struggling to get to the scene fast.

For house break-ins, they reach only

4 out of 10

-within ten minutes. For cars, the figure is

6 out of 10

Researchers looked at more than 3,000 so-called ‘volume crime’ cases in the eight areas.

In 82 per cent

-no suspects were identified, the Report said.

Officers said there was a ‘strong initial lead’ in just under a fifth of cases, but this did not guarantee the crime would be solved.

In the best-performing area, the detection rate - not including offences to be ‘taken into consideration’ -for burglary is a mere

11.8 per cent

The worst is 4.9 per cent.

For theft from a motor vehicle, the best performer managed a detection rate of 5.8 per cent, compared with

2.8 per cent for the worst.

With theft of a car, the best solved 16.9 per cent of cases and

the worst 8.9 per cent.

Last night the findings sparked a fresh row over police bureaucracy.

Police and MPs said Whitehall targets and politically-correct stop and search forms had left officers spending half their time behind desks, rather than patrolling the streets.

This meant they were less able to respond quickly to reports of a break-in to a car or house, they said. Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said:

‘This Government’s obsession with imposing targets and bureaucracy for the police is stopping them doing their jobs -preventing and clearing -up crime.’

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Mark Oaten added:

‘It is common sense that you’re more likely to solve a crime IF you send an officer to the crime.’

Police Forces appear to be writing these cases off because their officers are tied up with Government targets and red tape.’

Police say that in the 1960s they could arrest and charge someone and be back on the street in half an hour.

Booking in a suspect now takes up to five hours due to a huge rise in the number of forms.

Police also have to spend up to ten minutes filling in forms every time they stop somebody in the street. Previously they had to fill in a form ONLY when stops led to searches.

It has led to POLICE spending 53 per cent of their time on frontline duties, according to official figures.

Serving police officer Norman Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said:

Burglary is a very serious and distressing crime, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail, BUT police are NOT being ALLOWED to do the JOB they WANT TO DO.

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HOW BURGLARY KILLS PENSIONERS

Daily Mail

Friday, February 24, 2006

by

Matthew Hickley

Home Affairs Correspondent.

PENSIONERS who have been burgled are far more likely to die in the months after the crime, research has revealed.

The chances of elderly victims dying or needing to move into a home are nearly two -and- half -times greater within two years of a break-in, according to a Home Office study.

The findings come as a separate report revealed that the number of distraction burglaries -where thieves con their way into homes -may be eight times higher than official figures because elderly victims are too embarrassed to report the crime.

The health effects of burglary study looked at 80 -year-olds living in sheltered accommodation in North Wales. Their health was tracked after a break-in and compared with neighbours of a similar age.

The results showed that the likelihood of burglary victims dying or having to move into a care home within two years was 2.4 times greater than those who had not been targeted. Some victims also became ‘very twitchy’ and many were left housebound.

The distraction burglary report, meanwhile, fond that just 12 per cent of victims -most of whom are elderly-tell the police, far lower than for other forms of burglary. There could be more than

130,000 victims

of such crimes a year, it suggested, rather than the

16,000 officially recorded.

Tory Home Affairs spokesman Nick Herbert said:

‘The Government claims the public have an exaggerated fear of crime, but this research confirms that the actual level of distraction burglaries is higher than the official figures suggest.’

Crime victims are snubbing a scheme where they meet their attackers because the encounters often turn nasty, it is claimed.

In some parts of the country, only 36 per cent of victims asked to take part in restorative justice programme agree to a meeting, a Home Office study says.

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[As is usual the Home Office cannot see the wood for the trees - that the answer is that if they wish to keep their idiotic paper-trail in existence then they like any regular business need to look after their customers and get post haste thousands of extra police on our streets without the need of POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION which has been shown to be more harmful in the short and long term interests of the community.

In short we need more

Efficient and Capable

police officers on the beat whatever their cultural heritage.

We need more POLICE and the trees or should we say individuals who so long as they meet the high standards which were in existence before the scourge of Political-correctness entered our once sane island Home -will be welcome.]

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