Record crime detection rate

NORTHERN Constabulary has recorded the highest detection rate in its history in the first 11 months of the financial year.

With a month still to go before the annual figures are finally calculated, the force is hopeful that the current record detection rate of 67.3 per cent – one of the highest in the UK – could rise again by the year end.

A spokesman said: “The force has also achieved an excellent 100 per cent detection rate in terms of drug possession and supply, meaning that if you are involved in the drug trade in the Northern Constabulary force area you are more likely to be caught than in any other area of the UK.”