The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has criticised the police for regarding “certain crimes as unimportant or minor” and has called on them to follow all “reasonable lines of inquiry” when investigating low-level crimes such as mobile phone robberies.
Ms. Braverman told the BBC: “There is no such crime as a minor crime, whether it’s phone theft, car theft, watch theft, whether it’s street-level drug-dealing or drug use, the police must now follow every reasonable line of inquiry.”
