LETTER: More interested in clear up rate
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May I, by means of your columns, applaud Sussex Police for recording 95 per cent of crimes accurately.
Hang on a bit, did you say recorded, as in written down?
With 95 per cent of ‘close to 100,000 crimes’ recorded accurately, it means that ‘only’ 5,000 were recorded inaccurately.
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Hide AdApart from the seemingly, to me, irrelevant red tape involved in measuring the accuracy of recording, I think that the general public, me included, would be far more interested in their crime clear up percentage rather than celebrating the accuracy of their joined up writing.
T J Thomas
De La Warr Road
Bexhill
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