Police chief vows to get 'under the skin' of burglars

THE number of residential burglaries in Hertfordshire over the past year has dropped by four per cent.

- By CHARLOTTE PAGE

Police also attended more than 99 per cent of residential burglaries, Jonathan Ash-Edwards, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire, has been told by the Chief Constable, during a public accountability and performance meetings introduced to allow him to scrutinise, in an open and transparent way, the performance of Hertfordshire Constabulary.

He put burglary on the agenda for the meeting which was broadcast live last month.

Asking the Chief Constable Andy Prophet for an update on the Constabulary’s plan to reduce burglary Mr Ash-Edwards said: "Burglary is one of the things that the public raise with me the most as an area of concern.

"It is fairly low in Hertfordshire, but it is a crime that really impacts people’s sense of safety in their own home."

Mr Prophet explained how Operation Guardian is a force-wide campaign designed to "reduce burglary, and arrest and lock up burglars."