What is the Audit Commission up to?
” (1991) 7 Policing 88 • Audit Commission, Helping with Enquiries (1993) – see: Dunningham, C, and Norris, C., “The nark’s game” (1996) 146 New Law Journal 402, 456 • Audit Commission, Streetwise (1996) Three themes have tended to be emphasised in these reports. 3 One theme, already covered, is the encouragement of the use of targets and priorities. See Audit Commission, Police Papers No.8: Effective Policing (1990). These were crystallised in 1995 when the Audit Commission produced its National Performance police indicators i.e. defined targets and priorities. These concerned: levels of recorded crime and crimes detected; officers available; expenditure; emergency response times. The Audit Commission then collected statistics from each force as to their performance. It may be noted that the emphasis here is much more on crime catching – hard, confrontational policing, rather than the wider measures used by ACPO in 1990. 4 Another theme concerns the championing of the devolution of ope
