Crime and security bill

Two things today related to the crime and security bill currently going through Parliament.
On Monday this week clause 41 of the crime and security bill sailed through the house of commons virtually unopposed. Just over a week since the bi-partisan justice select committee had stated plainly:
“Prison is a relatively ineffective way of reducing crime for [...]

January 21, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Government policy, Police  One Comment

Another Queen’s Speech another criminal justice bill

For one final time before an election in 2010 the government delivered their legislative agenda in the form of the Queen’s Speech and just like every other before it, the text made reference to yet another piece of justice legislation to clamp down on anti-social behaviour. The proposed Crime and Security Bill will widen the [...]

November 18, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Government policy, Inside prisons, Prisons  One Comment

To make a better world

Today’s report in the Telegraph that more than a million children have their details stored on the police DNA database is horrifying.  The government is flouting international law for adults by failing to implement the recent European court decision that a blanket policy of holding DNA information indefinitely is illegal; but this is even more [...]

August 12, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments