Jack Dromey MP, Labour’s Shadow Policing Minister, responding to today’s HMIC report on crime prevention, police attendance and the use of police time, said:

“People will rightly be extremely alarmed by this report’s suggestion that there are some crimes the police simply do not investigate.

"As a result of David Cameron’s failure more and more criminals are getting away with it.

"This a damning indictment of this Government’s claims to be cutting crime. In fact, what is being cut are the number of crimes investigated.”