So it appears as though a leaked memo is predicting a rise in the level of crime.

As someone who was a victim of a crime only last week this hardly comes as a shock. What is more worrying to me is that if my experience is echoed across the country, with the police seemingly not that interested in investigating committed crimes, the figure in reality may be much higher. If crimes aren't being followed up I wonder just how many people have just stopped calling the police.

The latest explanation for not visiting involved the fact that a culprit was not at the scene of the crime when we reported it. Funny that - as if they had been I think I would have used the 999 number and not the general number to report crimes.

If the policy is to not attend crimes against property the police may as well give you a number for a call centre based abroad that just generates a crime number and then nothing else happens - as that is often all that happens now.

Now that clearly can't be the policy - but people are losing faith in the police as the system seems to stop them from even visiting the scenes of crimes that have taken place.

So am I bothered that the amount of crimes committed are going up... yes. Am I more bothered that at the moment some crimes seem to be regarded as completely unimportant... Absolutely!