Add into the mix that when you telephone the call centre you will be given an incident number and no officers will call.
That is not recorded as a crime.
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If they are sent out
12 cars in a row vandalised and mirrors pulled off.
12 separate incidents?, 12 separate crimes?. Only if someone is detected as that will increase the detection rate.
No person detected the 12 are recorded as only one crime, keeps the figures down.
Hey Mary let's not let the truth get in the way of a good spin story.
Its all the medias fault for reporting crime......................
Ban crimewatch