GOVERNMENT IS LOSING THE PLOT ON CRIME – HOWARTH
Commenting on the National Association of Probation Officers’ warning that plans to cut the probation service’s budget by 20% could lead to an extra 300,000 crimes being committed a year, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson, David Howarth said: “These alarming figures show that the Government is losing the plot on crime.”
“The main point of any sentence must be to reduce crime in the future, but the Government is doing the opposite.
“It is making it harder for the probation service to use sentences that have some effect and forcing it to do little more than supervise offenders.
“It is amazing that a Government that claims to be tough on crime is actually planning to make crime worse.”
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