Police may be 'stricter' in deciding which crimes to investigate and which to shelve, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins has admitted.
Nearly a fifth of GMP staff are now self-isolating because of the coronavirus pandemic and the top cop admitted call-handlers will be faced with tough choices about which cases to pursue and which to drop. "If you are ringing because somebody is breaking into your house we are still going to come.
What we are saying is with our crime screening policy we don't investigate everything to death. We will still record every single crime as we normally would do but the crime screening policy means we make a threat, harm and risk assessment and we might be stricter about the things we are not going to investigate," said