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Island crime falls 4.5% despite rise in emergency calls

Police say crime on the Island fell by 4.5 percent over the past year.

That's according to the Chief Constable's annual report, which has released figures from April last year to this March.

However the detection rate - or proportion of resolved crimes - decreased from 55.8 percent to 51.9 percent down to 51.9 percent.

Meanwhile the number of calls to the Emergency Services Joint Control room also rose by four percent from 13,999 to 14,562 calls.

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