Police crime figures not a "reliable measure": Official

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Sir Michael Scholar, Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, has confirmed that the official crime statistics are useless.

"But a more balanced commentary on national trends in violent crime would, in the view of the authority, also make reference to the estimates given in the British Crime Survey, which in our view provide a more reliable measure of the national trend over time."

Lets get this clear. Records of actual crimes recorded by the police are less reliable than the ESTIMATES in an opinion poll based on the memory of those surveyed.

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