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UK: British police 33% less effective

01 July 1996

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An answer to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons has revealed that the clear-up rate of notifiable offences by the police in England and Wales has fallen from 45% in 1980, just after the present government came into power, to 30% in 1995. The question from Labour MP Paul Flynn also showed that if Wales was left out of the equation the clear-up rate drop to only 26%. Hansard, parliamentary question, 25.6.96.

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