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The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1998

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3.  The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996 are—

(a)to deal speedily and effectively with young offenders and to work with other agencies to reduce re-offending;

(b)to target and reduce local problems of crime and disorder in partnership with local authorities, other local agencies and the public;

(c)to target drug-related crime in partnership with other local agencies;

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

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

(f)To respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.

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