Discuss - Crime Police Targets - Ensure police meet strict targets for crime reduction

Should our police force be obliged to meet strict targets for crime reduction?

Alliance Party Alliance would encourage "greater co-operation and co-ordination between the criminal justice agencies tackling undue delay and the speed of justice, including working to agreed and shared targets" Source: Alliance Party website: http://allianceparty.org/page/justice

Conservative The Conservative Party propose to free the police to fight crime by cutting red tape and scrapping unnecessary targets. Source: Conservative Party website

DUP The DUP want to increase the proportion of time police officers spend on operational duties to levels comparable with the rest of the United Kingdom. Source: DUP Website / List of Policies

Labour We will insist on new professional standards in our police service, with officers guilty of serious misconduct struck off, and a tougher Police Standards Authority. Source: Labour Party

Liberal Democrat "The Liberal Democrats’ policy also includes plans to eradicate the target-driven incentives which can cause the powers [of stop and search] to be overused by police and improve safeguards through tighter guidance." Source: Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722482/Put-body-cameras-stop-search-police-say-Lib-Dems.html

Respect Party The Respect Party have announced on their website that their policies would include making "the police accountable to the community." Source: Respect Party website

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