Just a follow-up to an earlier posting (see last para)
Guardian/newsunilimited Crime-busting County's
Methods Go Nationwide
From the Press Association
Monday November 29, 1999 12:42 PM
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary
have visited a police station to learn about
a pioneering initiative as a new crime
strategy is launched.
Tony Blair and Jack Straw were told about
the success of a scheme being used by
police in the Medway towns to reduce
burglaries and thefts.
The Prime Minister used the visit to
Rochester to launch a crime reduction
strategy of using successful local
initiatives on a nationwide basis.
Kent has seen a 32% fall in crime in the
past five years and is viewed as a
success story by the Government.
The visit comes as figures for England and
Wales for the same five-year period show
a gap of 36% in achievement in crime
reduction between the best and worst
police forces.
In Northumbria, judged to have performed
the best in the Home Office league table,
recorded crime fell by 37% between
1993-94 and 1998-99, followed by Durham
at 34%.
This compared with a 1% reduction in
Sussex, the worst performing police force
for crime reduction over the same period.
Overall crime fell by 19% across all 43
forces over the last five years under the
old system of counting recorded crime.
He encouraged forces and local
authorities to follow Kent's innovation and
get young people on the New Deal
scheme to join the fight against crime by
fitting locks and bolts to people's homes.
He also said he wanted the DNA
revolution in crime fighting to continue
backing the Metropolitan police which has
begun to take samples from anyone
arrested for an offence which carries a
prison term.
Derrick Cameron
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