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ZERO TOLERANCE vs ZERO IMPACT
Alasdair Palmer and Charles Laurence
Splashed across many of last week's newspapers was the headline: 'UK police are the worst in the developed world'. That claim will have confirmed what a lot of people in the UK already believe.
It was prompted by a book by Norman Dennis and George Erdos that compared the British police's performance in dealing with rising crime rates with the forces in America, France and Germany. The British police came out of the comparison very badly.
'In fact, I don't think our police force is among the world's worst,' explained Mr Dennis, who works for the think-tank Civitas and for the University of Newcastle. 'But I do think that it is demonstrably true that our police force has failed, and failed miserably, to respond effectively to rising crime rates. "
