Specials numbers targets easier to say than achieve

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Specials numbers targets 'easier to say than achieve'

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Date - 13th January 2016
By - Ian Weinfass - Police Oracle

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Targets don't help cut crime, they hinder the fight against crime. Those are the words of the Home Secretary Theresa May, whose key reforms have included the creation of police and crime commissioners. At least eight PCCs - whose terms end in...

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