Article 2

The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964^f1are—

(a)

to maintain and, if possible, increase the number of detections for violent crimes;

(b)

to increase the number of detections for burglaries of people’s homes;

(c)

to target and prevent crimes which are a particular local problem, including drug-related criminality, in partnership with the public and local agencies;

(d)

to provide high visibility policing so as to reassure the public; and

(e)

to respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 3 was substituted by section 2 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994.