Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look At Crime Statistics In The UK
The answer lies in the big wins. The detections of minor middle class associated crime that is easier to detect. Wayne sends a text threatening to kill Waynetta for cheating on him. Officers attend, take a statement, get an admission, provide an on the spot caution and hey presto, we have another detection. Wayne complains Waynetta has sent him a more threatening text, so police attend, and yet another easy detection is added to the books.
Excuse the flippant example, but there are many thousands like this, taking up our officers valuable time, when they should be investigating, detecting and prosecuting offenders responsible for the more serious offences.
Half a million burglary offences a year and only 13% - 63,000 are detected. The sad part is, most of those will be TIC’s or detected after a villain has been locked up for another offence.
800,000 violence offences and only 11% - 90,000 detections.
The detections for the key offence areas in June 2010 add up to 217,108. The total detections add up to 1,382,660. That is 1.1 million offences detected in what the public would consider are outside of the areas that concern them most, burglary, robbery, vehicles and violence. We can be certain that there are significant and important detections within that 1.1 million. But what we should be equally certain of, is that there will be a large percentage that add up to many thousands of hours where officers could be more essentially deployed. THIS is a major factor beneath the surface that will have had a massive impact over the years on public confidence in policing. And it’s all driven by target seeking, financially and career motivated senior officers. These officers used to want promotion for the honour of serving in high office, genuinely responsible for the welfare of the community they serve and the officers who serve them. Unfortunately, (and Labour must take greatest responsibility for this), honour has been supplanted with pure greed for financial, political and career gain.
All of this screams out that officers are not being trained to be specialised or deployed in the detection of the offences that matter most to the public. The simple fact of the matter is, the target culture still pervades and is embedded and endemic within the forces. Theresa May might have killed Professor Frankenstein by instructing Chief Officers to scrap performance targets, but rest assured, the Frankenstein monster of crime statistics and detections is still walking freely in our police service. It is hardly surprising therefore that Chief Officers are throwing up all the objections under the sun against the cuts that are so desperately required and the appointment of Crime Commissioners.
They have had too much for too long. The fact is they have wasted a valuable opportunity to really get to grips with real crime and detections and simply chosen the easier option every time. Over the years, manipulated crime statistics suggested that they could do more with less, so they now have to deliver. They are the authors of their own misfortunes. They will fear the Crime Commissioners may actually expose their game, that they will be forced to prove they can be effective police officers, not merely clever administrators. Is it any wonder the Chiefs bleat on about not wanting interference in operational policing strategy?
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