‘Woefully low’: Cressida Dick calls for action on crime-solving rates

Met commissioner calls for better use of data to fight fall in detection rates. The Metropolitan police commissioner has hit out at “woefully low” rates for solving crimes, with courts “emptying” despite some offences rising. Cressida Dick used a keynote lecture to call for better use of data and public consent to avoid charges of a “police state”. Talking to an audience in London at the thinktank the Police Foundation, Dick said she was not proud of low detec