THE Chief Constable of Lancashire, Mrs Pauline Clare, states (LET, November 30) that the crime rate over the last five years has been slashed by 20 per cent.

Although that is commendable, most people are not interested in what happened over the previous five years.

The most interesting figure was that more than 118,000 recorded incidents occurred last year, which was more than the previous year.

Mrs Clare should have stated the percentage increase in crime between those two years.

You reported (LET, November 26) that over 33,000 people were stopped by the traffic police over the Christmas period last year and that only five were over the limit.

The five caught in the annual purge amounted to 0.0015 per cent. Had the police involved in the annual persecution of the motorist been allowed to be used to cut down on the aforesaid 118,000-plus recorded incidents, I am sure that more than five of those incidents would have been solved.

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