Sunday, 3 May 2009


May 02, 2009

What an average burglary costs the police

Northamptonshire police say the average cost of a burglary to them is around £3,300.

How can this be? Police usually do so little work on a burglary and they solve so few.

So how many front line hours does £3,300 represent? What do they achieve? Can this be good value for money?

Perhaps it would be more pertinent to ask how many backroom hours this represents.

However did Northants police arrive at this big number?