The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/2678
• Sections: 2

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994.

Section 2

The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964 are—

(a) to maintain and, if possible, increase the number of detections for violent crimes;

(b) to increase the number of detections for burglaries of people’s homes;

(c) to target and prevent crimes which are a particular local problem, including drug-related criminality, in partnership with the public and local agencies;

(d) to provide high visibility policing so as to reassure the public; and

(e) to respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.