Police figures spark red tape row
Updated on 06 July 2009
The Home Office has been accused of "manipulating" figures to hide a rise in the time police officers spend on paperwork.
Figures given to the Tories in response to a Parliamentary question show the proportion of the day spent on the front line rising from 63.6% in 2003/4 to 64.9% in 2007/08.
But that figure includes time spent on "incident-related paperwork" which went up from 10.3% to 12.4% in the same period.
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