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Chief constables have been put on contracts, and index have to operate with league tables and performance indicators Salaries have fallen. The statistic shows modules xoopsfaq index not only modules xoopsfaq index that thieving is one of the few safe professions left id=2 but that the current xoopsfaq emphasis on tough index policing and tougher penalties php?cat will not cut crime because too few criminals are convicted.The British police have always php?cat id=2 known this id=2 and have emphasised the importance xoopsfaq php?cat of preventing crime and maintaining order. Unfortunately, government modules policy xoopsfaq index php?cat is taking the police away from these wider social modules responsibilities.Pique explains the Home modules Office's id=2 new strategy. Last year, 1.2 million burglaries were reported in England and Wales; 268,883 were "cleared up" php?cat id=2 and only 49,491 burglars were convicted.
For most people success would mean catching a crook and convicting him. Nobody knows whether Bumblebee-type operations lead to more criminals being found guilty in court but the national picture is dismal. But when the Home Office's national crime figures for the year ending June 1955 came out, New Scotland Yard was faced with grim news: the number of burglaries in London had risen by 6 per cent even though they had fallen nationally by 5 per cent.The Met explained the "blip" by saying that it had changed its methods and reclassified crimes previously listed as criminal damage as burglary. It pointed to a rise in the clear-up rate for burglary in London as evidence that the policy was working But again there are difficulties.
The same pattern was followed before Operation Christmas Cracker; even journalists were briefed on the raids a week before.While the press is being squared and targets collected, burglars are protected like grouse in the close season. In seven Bumblebee raids between June 1993 and May 1995, police searched 4,401 homes and arrested 3,276 people. Then, the Glorious Twelfth of the British Police dawns and - crash - sledge hammers go through doors, cameras whirr and a "resounding blow" is struck.This would matter less if high-profile raids were a great success But they are not. If you saw the television pictures last week of officers charging into a house like the SAS, you would naturally assume that the man inside was a violent criminal So would his neighbours. But he may not be convicted; he may not even have been arrested.If arguments about civil liberties seem a bit wet, consider a different question: do these flamboyant displays work? When Operation Bumblebee began, Police Review, the journal for thinking officers, said that known burglars were being left undisturbed for weeks so they could be arrested on the day of the big swoop. Television cameras are there to record officers breaking and entering.