Police chiefs have warned, plans to release violent criminals including sex criminals, will make Britain less safe from jail.
Six senior Police officer This month’s spending reviews have publicly called ministers to provide “serious investment” – Rachel Raves pressure to rethink his fiscal rules.
Write Many timesThey argue that, without “necessary resources” GovernmentJune spending reviews, the decision to release more people quickly may be “a net barrier for public safety”.
Officers including Mercesis, West Midlands chiefs, Greater Manchester And the head of the West Yorkshire Police and the National Police Chief Council argued that forces need more money and more officials to deal with the “growing public demand”.
With the increasing demand from organized crime and new online threats, he said that prisoners would put more pressure on policing with recommendations in emergency release and punishment reviews to reduce congestion.
Speaking to the BBC Today program on Wednesday morning, the Metropolitan Police Chief, Sir Mark Rowle said that while the government’s vow on law and order was “balanced and intelligent”, they were “very, very ambitious”.
He said: “We are carrying the tissue of years of cutting in penance cuts, and the effects of it. The force is very small when you compare the population that they were doing policing compared to a decade or 15 years ago.”
However, he insisted that the police forces were “asking not only for more money”, but also wanted “radical reforms”.
It was followed by justice secretary Shabana Mahmood to allow some criminals to be quickly released for good behavior as part of a series of measures to deal with the prison congestion, including violent and sexual criminals last week.
She also agreed to scrap small sentences under 12 months and was sentenced to more criminals in the community instead.
The government has said that changes will ensure that the jail is not crowded, will blame the previous administration for failing to build sufficient jail places.
But Sir Mark warned that the ministers have not properly considered the impact of this policy on policing.
He said, “He has not analyzed any analysis on the impact on policing. There is no analysis. So that without any analysis of impact on policing, we have been settled without impact on us,” he said.