
1 
This Order may be cited as the Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994.
2 
The objectives for the policing of the areas of all police authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964are—
(a) to maintain and, if possible, increase the number of detections for violent crimes;
(b) to increase the number of detections for burglaries of people’s homes;
(c) to target and prevent crimes which are a particular local problem, including drug-related criminality, in partnership with the public and local agencies;
(d) to provide high visibility policing so as to reassure the public; and
(e) to respond promptly to emergency calls from the public.
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
15th October 1994