Police failing to investigate crimes, says official watchdog
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary publishes reports on the "integrity" of crime figures - and finds some serious problems
Police are failing to investigate crimes
and ignoring victims of rape and violent attacks because forces are
still not recording crime properly, official watchdogs have warned.
A series of reports on 21 forces across England and Wales exposed
serious shortcomings in the way police handle allegations reported to
them by members of the public.
Amid
widespread concern that some forces have been “fiddling” the crime
figures, the new data showed that several forces failed to record one
third of crimes reported to them.
