Greater Manchester Police wrote off nearly 300 rapes and 9,000 house burglaries in the first six months of last year as unsolved.
The force logged 86,211 crimes in total as 'investigation complete; no suspect identified' from January to July 2019. The figures were released after a Freedom of Information request by the Liberal Democrat MP, Layla Moran.
She said it was "scandalous" that so many cases were closed unsolved. But GMP's Assistant Chief Constable, Rob Potts, said that at a time of "reduced resources and more demand" officers had to make "difficult decisions" every day to ensure they were protecting the most vulnerable. The figures revealed that 284 rapes and 317 drug trafficking offences, 2,788 stalking and harrassment cases, and
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