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<p> </p><p>The Coalition Government has abolished all central policing targets and
<br>mandatory indicators to enable the police to discourage perverse incentives <br>and
to allow them to focus on their clear objective, to cut crime. This applies equally
<br>to crime in rural areas as it does to crime in our towns and cities and we have
<br>no plans to create new central targets for reducing crime in rural areas. It is
now the responsibility of directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners to ensure
the police deal with the issues that really matter to the communities they serve,
and the public will <br>hold them to account for this.</p><p> </p>
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