Because - and it also flies in the face of Government policy, I mean the policy is to protect the public by preventing crime.

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Officers at Olympic venues will focus on preventing crime and keeping people and their property safe, while G4S is responsible for the security operation, it says.

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Colgate said the Justice Department seeks to create a permanent network of experts dedicated to preventing computer crime and prosecuting those responsible.

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But Lord Carlile, the former official reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that "having come into government, the coalition parties have realised this kind of material has potential for saving lives, preventing serious crime and helping people to avoid becoming victims of serious crime".

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First, the police have traditionally seen their main job as keeping public order rather than preventing or solving crime.

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"Officers will still be on the beat in your area, preventing and detecting crime, and will respond when you call, " he added.

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The Met said 120 officers would be deployed into the Trident Gang Command which will still investigate non-fatal gang crime such as firearms trafficking and concentrate on preventing gun, gang and knife crime.

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The report accuses Saud Aziz, police chief of Rawalpindi, the garrison city where Ms Bhutto was killed, of deliberately preventing investigators from reaching the crime scene for nearly two days.

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From the lengthy opening sequence in which the pre-crime division go about preventing a murder, this is genuine edge-of-the-seat stuff tempered with a healthy dose of dark humour.

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