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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1998/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/216",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-secretary-of-states-objectives-order-1998",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996 are—\n(a) to deal speedily and effectively with young offenders and to work with other agencies to reduce re-offending;\n(b) to target and reduce local problems of crime and disorder in partnership with local authorities, other local agencies and the public;\n(c) to target drug-related crime in partnership with other local agencies;\n(d) to maintain and, if possible, increase the number of detections for violent crime;\n(e) to increase the number of detections for burglaries of people’s homes; and\n(f) To respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/216/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:06.344841+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}