Police chiefs in England and Wales have promised that their officers will attend all residential thefts, following the UK government’s call for a shift of focus from “symbolic gestures” to “commonsense policing.”
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said on Oct. 5 that chief constables will work to ensure the approach is implemented “as soon as practically possible.”
According to the NPCC, while some UK police forces already have a policy of attending all home burglaries, others only attend “where it has been established that there are evidential lines of enquiry or where victims are vulnerable or elderly.”
NPCC Chair Martin Hewitt said more burglaries should be solved if officers visit the scene….