# The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994, Article 2


The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964are—
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2678/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1994/article-2
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