CRACKING INFO: If you throw away credit card receipts and bills, rip them up so they are unreadable.

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When my car was vandalised, I reported it to the police and was told it would be dusted for fingerprints in FIVE days time! Paul

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If you seriously want to reduce crime we need to provide our young people with better role models in their formative years - Keith

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You can have all the cameras that you want but unless you have a bobby on the beat you will never cut street robberies � Mike

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Prisons should be a deterrent. Some provide better accommodation than hotels I have stayed in - Alan

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When I was mugged, the police were rude, hurtful and offered no support; I am still afraid to walk the streets on my own and I am only 25 - Jenny

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If cannabis brings people into contact with dealers then why not make it legal to cultivate small amounts for personal use? Clive

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Judges need to be younger and more in touch with what is going on in the real world - Simon

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Only when you need a crime reference number for an insurance claim do you bother to report crime nowadays - Angus

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Money from on the spot fines could be used to pay special constables and this may encourage more people to sign up - Bryan

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