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Read the text and fill in the gaps. There are two extra options you do not need to choose.Police forces have always used technology to help them (1) _________, but as collecting data and storing it becomes much easier, more and more police forces are using it to improve (2) _________and therefore (3) _________ before it happens. Crime prevention software called PredPol helps the police predict where crimes are likely to occur. The softwave analyses years of data on the location, time and nature of (4) _________and predicts where and when crime is most likely to occur in the future. Police officers receive this information on the computers in their cars and they then spend more time in these areas. As a result, the increased police presence in these neighbourhoods has cut crime significantly. (5) _________for one area of Los Angeles, USA, were reduced by 12% in 2011 when police officers used crime prediction software. In the same year, burglaries were cut by 26% in Manchester, UK, using the same methods.