Just 5.6% of offences in England and Wales in 2021/22 - about one in 18 - resulted in a charge and/or summons, down from 7.1%, or one in 14, in 2020/21, according to the latest Home Office figures.
In the last five years, an average of 774 burglaries have gone unsolved every day across England and Wales, it added.Advertisement
The proportion of reported burglaries attended by an officer has recently fallen to 50% within the Metropolitan Police, with commissioner Sir Mark Rowley saying last week that it was unacceptable. "We're never going to turn up to every single crime, and the public understand that, but something as severe as burglary needs a proper policing response," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.The NPCC has asked the newly-appointed Home Secretary Suella Braverman to help police chiefs focus more resources on solving crime, with a National Audit report in 2018 showing 64% of emergency calls were not about criminal offences.
Just 5.6% of offences in England and Wales in 2021/22 - about one in 18 - resulted in a charge and/or summons, down from 7.1%, or one in 14, in 2020/21, according to Home Office figures published in July. "We're asking government to seriously take on the vast widening of the policing mission. We want to focus more on solving crime. The public want the same and so do politicians," Mr Hewitt added.
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