The National Police Chiefs' Council responds to Ms Braverman's announcement that police forces in England and Wales must investigate every theft as part of a crackdown on crime.
"It is therefore right that police chiefs have operational independence and are responsible for making difficult decisions around how best to respond to the breadth of priorities of local communities."'Police must investigate every theft', he pointed out that since 2010, the first year of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, the number of police officers has only increased by 2.6% - compared with a 25% increase in recorded crime.
The commitment to follow all reasonable lines of inquiry - agreed by the Home Office, the NPCC and the College of Policing - comes as part of a"crime week" of policy announcements planned by the government.In her announcement, Ms Braverman said she had"heard too many accounts from victims where police simply haven't acted on helpful leads because crimes such as phone and car thefts are seen as less important", adding:"That's unacceptable.
Labour branded the announcements a"staggering admission of 13 years of Tory failure on policing and crime". "Pursuing reasonable leads like CCTV is what the police should be doing, but - because of abysmal Tory management - over 90% of crimes go unsolved, the proportion of crimes prosecuted has dropped by more than two thirds and more criminals are getting off," a Labour spokesperson said.
"The fact that the Tories are boasting about asking the police to do the basic minimum that victims of crime should rightly expect, whilst failing to tackle the underlying problems they have caused shows how badly they have failed over the last 13 years."
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