It’s been claimed that almost 600 burglaries are going unsolved every day.
Analysis of Home Office figures by the Liberal Democrats revealed that some 213,279 police inquiries into break-ins were closed last year without a suspect being identified.
According to the Lib Dems, this amounts to 76.8 per cent of all cases across England and Wales in 2022-23, an average of 584 a day.
South Yorkshire Police was said to have the worst clear-up rate with 84.4 per cent of all recorded burglaries unsolved, followed by Hampshire (83.1) and Scotland Yard (81.6).
The Lib Dems say the drop in neighbourhood policing teams and Police Community Support Officers is to blame.
They’re also calling for a statutory guarantee that officers will investigate every domestic break-in, despite a voluntary pledge by chief constables to do so.
The party’s home affairs spokesman Alistair Carmichael said that everyone deserves to feel safe and secure in their homes, but that knowing that so many burglars are getting off scot-free will bring little comfort to our communities.
He said, make no mistake, these were the consequences of the Conservatives constantly sidelining frontline policing, and that enough was enough. The Home Secretary must finally restore proper community policing and implement a burglary response guarantee, and that it was the only way to reverse those criminally bad figures.
A Home Office spokesman said that since 2010 their communities were safer with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft down 51 per cent.
The spokesman said that the Home Secretary does expect to see forces getting the basics right, deterring crime but also catching more criminals.
That’s why he called for every force to send an officer to investigate the scene of every home burglary, which is now happening across the country.
The problem is, the police are too busy painting rainbow flags on cars, learning the macarena and making cups of tea for hippies, or to be fair, they’re too busy walking alongside protestors.
Sadly, criminality pays off in the United Kingdom because even when thieves get caught, they simply get released to commit more burglaries.
The police don’t want any suspects or evidence on who the burglar might be because then it would mean that they have to do some hard work, like trying to trace the offender, so numerous cases are closed before any investigation is carried out.
It actually doesn’t pay to work and have a nice home and the comforts that go with it because if it’s all going to be robbed and cause distress, you may as well leave your front door open. Perhaps they should reduce the police wages and have them work for bonuses.
The police just can’t be bothered to send someone around, take fingerprints and check the CCTV in the area. They just don’t want to do much at all, while we finance them and pay their wages and pensions.
They now don’t even bother to turn up when you report a burglary, they just give you a crime reference number, and burglary is going the way of cannabis possession, the police see it as a non-crime, but when law enforcement picks and chooses which laws to implement, then our country is in trouble, and it’s a great way to let thieves know they’re pretty safe to break into anyone’s home without any repercussions.
In the end, people will start taking things into their own hands if a thief tries breaking into their house, and this won’t end well.
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