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Only 2% of car thefts resulted in a charge last year
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- Liberal Democrats are calling for a return to proper community policing with known officers on the beat to clamp down on crime.
New research commissioned by the Liberal Democrats has shown that just 2% of car thefts in England and Wales result in a charge.
The official Home Office data, analysed by the House of Commons Library, revealed there were 100,000 car thefts in the the first three quarters of 2022.
Of the instances of car theft, an eye-watering 68,800 went unsolved. And – of those cases who did have a suspect – just 2% resulted in a charge.
Analysis of the statistics shows that the number of car thefts rose by over a third in the past year when comparing the same time period in 2021 to 2022, up from 74,605 in the first three quarters of 2021 to 97,225.
Liberal Democrats are calling for a return to proper community policing with known officers on the beat to clamp down on crime.
Analysis by the House of Commons Library found that the number of community police officers have fallen by more than 4,000 since 2015 across England and Wales.
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