Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look At Crime Statistics In The UK
into the public arena will eclipse that of the MP Expenses cases, brought courageously to the surface by Heather Brooke.
The most recent figures released were submitted by Chief Officers and their forces still drunk under the political influence of the last Government. Theresa May abolished the old performance targets in June last year. Yet, despite having killed off Professor Frankenstein, his monster, in the form of performance targets and manipulated statistics, lives on in the senior management of the police forces of England and Wales. We need look no further than 32 of the 43 forces and their websites to see that the scrapped and expensive policing pledge is alive and well in those forces. Why? It is clear that the Chief Officers like the comfort of being able to say "We met our targets" even if the numbers were fiddled to get there.
To Theresa May and Jil Matheson, we wish you well in your fight to untangle the crime and detection statistics web of deceit. It may well be, that to restore confidence, we may have to accept drawing a line under the fabricated, financially driven statistics of Nu Labour with the introduction of a fresh start, or a "Ground Zero" approach. If that turns out to be the case, so be it. At least then there will be hope of some transparency and honesty about crime and detections, so that resources may be properly allocated.
As it stands at the moment, if we were to ask ourselves the questions: "Who is responsible for the current malaise? Why were the police not ring fenced in the spending review of last year?" Many might answer that the Chief Officers, with year upon year of fudged figures, gave the impression that they were reducing and detecting crime admirably with existing resources thank you very much. Is it any wonder they have now become the authors of their own and the rank and files current misfortunes?
So, to all Chief and Senior Officers who have even by their silence, helped to perpetuate the problems and challenges you now face we would say this. For once, be honest. Before you point the finger of blame at everyone but yourselves, including the federated rank and file, who you have instructed to carry out your despicable and scurrilous "strategies" - remember this . . . When you point the forefinger of blame, three more are pointing right back at you.
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