{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2678",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964are—\n(a) to maintain and, if possible, increase the number of detections for violent crimes;\n(b) to increase the number of detections for burglaries of people’s homes;\n(c) to target and prevent crimes which are a particular local problem, including drug-related criminality, in partnership with the public and local agencies;\n(d) to provide high visibility policing so as to reassure the public; and\n(e) to respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3 was substituted by section 2 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2678/article/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}