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Since 2021 just 3.9 percent of all burglaries investigated by the police have resulted in a charge - despite chiefs promising officers would be present after all domestic break-ins in 2022

The Liberal Democrats blamed years of Tory cuts leaving local police forces 'overstretched and unable to focus on frontline crime like burglaries'

Writing in the Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vows that Labour will end the Conservative chaos that is allowing criminals to get off as victims are let down

The average time a rape victim has to wait for charges to be brought against an offender has increased to 400 days

Cases were closed with no suspect charged in 14,505 of the 30,100 communities analysed – with Lyndhurst and Minstead in Hampshire habing the most unsolved break-ins

Vulnerable people who are repeatedly targeted by thugs who stamp on their flowers or throw beer bottles in their garden are not classed as victims so are not eligible for support

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

Penny Mordaunt suggested Lancashire Police's revelations about Nicola Bulley's medical history may have been 'sexist', amid ongoing anger at the force for its handling of the case

Rachael Bletchly says Lancashire Police could have revealed mum-of-two Nicola Bulley, 45, is a high-risk missing person without mentioning her struggles with menopause