In an opinion piece in The Times, Jawad Iqbal writes that the police are too busy pursuing people like Harry Miller over tweets to investigate real crimes He cites that 120,000 people have non crime incidents recorded against them and criticises the role of the CPS in creating this dysfunctional paradigm. In a recent poll by YouGov, only 1 in 9 people have confidence the police will investigate if they are the victim of an actual crime. I hope the government are paying attention. They won the support of first time Conservative voters, inter alia, because of a pledge to be tough on crime. As in crimes that are committed beyond the Twittersphere. When do they plan to start?
The case centred on the designation of non crime incidents. The operational guidance from the College of policing, which sets professional standards, says that officers should record it as a hate incident, regardless of whether there was evidence for the truth of the claim
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/police-are-too-busy-chasing-pc-causes-to-fight-real-crime-gd9qwjj3n