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13 Apr, 2014

UK Police officers despise fiddling crime statistics, says expert | The Observer

A significant number of police officers and government officials “despise” their role in the widespread practice of massaging official crime figures, according to a leading criminologist.

Marian FitzGerald, a visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent’s crime and justice centre, said many ethically minded senior officers were “scandalised” and detested their part in what they consider to be the manipulation of police statistics.

She said: “Many, many people within these organisations despise the way the game is being played and have no respect for the people who are cynically fiddling the figures in order to cover their backs and yet, for the sake of holding on to their jobs, they themselves end up passively or actively complicit in this.

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