Tomb it may concern - crime is grave problem in cemetery!

So, have you spent the weekend guessing where the hotbeds of crime are that we asked you to identify on Friday?
The first location, PE21 9HE, which saw burglary increase by 20.3%, and robbery by 73% may turn out to be something of a dead end for any police officer trying to investigate ... it's none other than the postcode for Boston Cemetery.
How about our second location - PE21 8QS ? A bad place this ... robbery has increased by 200%, burglary by 125% and violence by 41.4%. Not a safe place to visit at all ... the statistics prove it. But hang on. Surely that's the postcode for the town's police station!
And finally, how about PE21 8QR. A rough place, this, with violence increasing by 39.5% and anti-social behaviour by 28.6%. Where is it? None other than our very own council offices in West Street. At least the level of robbery has remained unchanged, which must be good news for council tax payers!
Before someone tells us that postcodes are not individual to buildings or places, we would say that we agree - which underlines our point that these statistics are completely useless.
All they do is cost money and take more police staff off the streets - or worse still generate more pen-pushing and computer keyboard clacking clones that we could well do without.
Meanwhile, police forces in the East Midlands, which of course includes Lincolnshire, say they are the first to sign up to the government's national "policing pledge" which outlines standards in England and Wales, and which will improve services and make communities safer.
They will have to meet minimum targets such as answering all 999 calls within 10 seconds, and dealing with victims, and will be expected to meet national standards to ensure they answer phone calls promptly, give people up-to-date details about local crimes, and improve their treatment of witnesses and victims.
The public will also be made aware of the standard of service they should expect, and communities will be given a stronger voice in setting local police priorities.
They have also promised to improve incident response times.
Police minister Vernon Coaker calls the promises "clear concrete practical things that people will be able to expect from their local police force. "It's actually going to give people something concrete to which they can hold their own police forces to account."
Boston Eye will believe it when we see it.
All of this is a statement of the bleedin' obvious.
Shouldn't the police have been meeting most if not all of these "pledges" already.
And if not, why not?
Meanwhile police on our streets are conspicuous by their absence, but when they are there are often conspicuous by their size and obvious unfitness (they camouflage well in Boston, then.)

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