Tackling Crime, Not Chasing Statistics / Police Oracle, 19 June 2008
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Martin Richards
"If you judge us by the number of crimes that we solve, then the numbers are looking very good indeed. They have improved dramatically over the last couple of years - with more offenders being arrested, record numbers of crimes being detected, and more offences being brought to justice than ever before. So, with detection rates improving all the time, you may well ask why - in my first full year as Chief Constable of Sussex - I decided that now was the time to stop setting an overall target for detecting crime."