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The result of patchy training is clear. Fraud arrests have fallen by 64% since 2015, despite soaring offences, with some officers lacking the skills even to follow up basic reports. Half of neighbourhoods have seen no burglaries solved in three years. Investigatory training in volume crime is frequently described by HMICFRS as inadequate. I have heard of child sexual abuse teams staffed almost entirely by inexperienced officers and of detective training reduced to a box-ticking exercise.