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The Sunday Times - UK
29 October 2006
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Police clean up on 'easy' crim
POLICE are massaging their crime clear-up rates by concentrating on solving minor offences such as cakes being thrown on buses and hair pulling in the school playground.
In some forces such offences, which involve suspects being questioned and warned but not charged, account for up to a third of all crimes solved.
Police chiefs are considering abolishing the practice because it is diverting officers from pursuing more serious crime.
Adrian McAllister, deputy chief constable of Lancashire police and who is leading a review by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) to be submitted to the Home Office, said that in some cases police forces were losing sight of “common sense” by marking such offences as solved or “detected”.
Although the government says it does not rely on the statistics, known as “non-sanction detections”, when compiling its annual performance tables, forces supply them to the Home Office in the hope of showing their success in tackling crime.
Clive Wolfendale, deputy chief constable of North Wales police, admitted that many of the crimes listed as “detected” by the force were little more than minor jostling among late-night revellers.
His force has this year logged a total detection rate of 43%, of which 14% — or about a third — is attributed to non-sanction detections. The rest involved suspects being charged or convicted of crimes. The national figure is 3%.
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