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Lesley Richardson
Police in a seaside town are turning to the power of prayer to tackle crime in the area, it emerged today.
Dorset Police Chief Superintendent Bob Boulton gave his blessing to the initiative after reading a news article about prayer reducing crime in west London.
He addressed a group of church leaders in Boscombe, Dorset when he passed on some alarming crime statistics for the seaside town and encouraged them to pray.
Mr Boulton said: �At the end of the day it�s another way of engaging part of the community, in particular churchgoers, in the fight against crime.
�I haven�t done any research myself to qualify whether the article was genuinely accurate, but part of the issue is that, often, the fear of crime is significantly disproportionate to the risk of crime."
