SURREY Police has emerged as one of the better performing forces in England and Wales after a damning report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.

It found that an estimated 800,000 crimes reported by the public across the UK?had been wiped from the official figures from October 2012-13.

The report commissioned by Home Secretary Theresa May, involved inspectors listening in to 8,000 calls to police by the public.

They made their own decisions about what should be recorded as a crime and what should not, according to strict rules set out by the Home Office.

They then compared their conclusions with what was actually recorded by police in relation to the 8,000 calls and found far too few crimes were being logged in the official figures.

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