Devon and Cornwall has one of the worst rates of rape in the country while police are also in the bottom five for detections.
Police data on the number of rapes recorded by the 43 police forces in England and Wales, and the outcomes, are published together for the first time today by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
It showed that there were 420 incidents of rape reported to Devon and Cornwall Police in the 12 months to March 2013 – a rate of 30.3 per 100,000 population –...
