OVER 5,000 crimes go unsolved every day, new figures show.
And only one in twenty crime reports end with a suspect being charged.
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The damning statistics, which show that millions of victims are not getting justice, led MPs to accuse the government of “sleeping behind the wheel” in tackling crime.
In total, between January and September 2022, 1.47 million criminal cases were closed by the police without a suspect being identified.
That amounts to 5,378 violations that go unresolved every day England And Wales.
Last year, the police watchdog warned that most victims of burglary, robbery and theft are not getting justice.
Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem’s interior chief, who commissioned the latest investigation, said communities are “paying the price” for the government’s failure.
He called for a return to community policing, saying “Victims will be outraged that the government is sleeping behind the wheel.”
The Met police — England’s largest military force — was the worst offender, citing 227,000 investigations in the first nine months of 2022 without catching a suspect.
West Midlands followed with 110,720, followed by Gtr Manchester with 103,700 and West Yorks with 90,734.
The Home office said: “The Crime Survey shows overall crime was down 10 percent in the year to September 2022 compared to the pre-pandemic year to March 2020, and robbery was down 20 percent.”