Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend has said a plan to take responsibility off police to handle an increasing amount of mental health cases should give officers up to “a million” more hours to deal with previously over-looked lower-level crime.

It comes as forces across the UK are set to promise to investigate every offence where there is a reasonable lead to follow. Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn