Post by HURLOCK on Mar 27, 2007 6:24:01 GMT -1
Lets target career criminals, is this a new problem? Do the decent thing and fuck off - I personally have no interest in what you've got to say anymore.
You're job is to look after the country no your legacy!
Review targets career criminals
The review will look at crime fighting and sentencing
New ways to rehabilitate offenders and target the most prolific criminals are among the latest ideas for combating crime being unveiled by Tony Blair.
The policy review announcement will recommend tougher community sentences and units for prisoners with mental illness in England and Wales.
The plans also include proposals for a reorganisation of the police service.
The measures, a bid to improve the way forces fight crime, aim to improve accountability and flexibility.
The PM's review will identify ways to cut red tape, make the police more accessible to the public and give forces greater say over their budgets.
However, the restructuring of forces - a plan abandoned when John Reid became home secretary - is not on the agenda.
Judges' powers
One of the more radical ideas in the policy document is for special units to house mentally-ill prisoners, where drug treatment would be available.
"Career criminals" could be prevented from mixing with former associates when they are freed from prison.
Other steps being considered include removing non-cash assets and driving licences, more rehabilitation in jails, keeping prisoners in contact with their children, more therapy and less reliance on drugs to treat mentally ill offenders.
Judges would have more powers to impose licences to get offenders to stay away from particular locations or individuals, or to send them for treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.
The review will also look at identifying children who are in danger of "going off the rails".
Penal policy
However, shadow home secretary David Davis said the review was "recognition of the abject failure of criminal justice policy in the last 10 years".
He said: "This rag bag of ill-thought-through ideas is likely to go the same way as government proposals for 'cash point fines for yobs' and 'night courts'.
"What we need is a clearly thought out penal policy that takes the worst criminals out of circulation, punishes them, gets them off drugs and, where possible, rehabilitates them.
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said it was a "welcome, if belated U-turn" on sentencing policy.
"We have been warning for years that New Labour's obsessive pursuit of headlines, over-reliance on ever more illiberal legislation and fanatical 'get tough' rhetoric do little to tackle either the fear of crime or its root causes," he said.
You're job is to look after the country no your legacy!
Review targets career criminals
The review will look at crime fighting and sentencing
New ways to rehabilitate offenders and target the most prolific criminals are among the latest ideas for combating crime being unveiled by Tony Blair.
The policy review announcement will recommend tougher community sentences and units for prisoners with mental illness in England and Wales.
The plans also include proposals for a reorganisation of the police service.
The measures, a bid to improve the way forces fight crime, aim to improve accountability and flexibility.
The PM's review will identify ways to cut red tape, make the police more accessible to the public and give forces greater say over their budgets.
However, the restructuring of forces - a plan abandoned when John Reid became home secretary - is not on the agenda.
Judges' powers
One of the more radical ideas in the policy document is for special units to house mentally-ill prisoners, where drug treatment would be available.
"Career criminals" could be prevented from mixing with former associates when they are freed from prison.
Other steps being considered include removing non-cash assets and driving licences, more rehabilitation in jails, keeping prisoners in contact with their children, more therapy and less reliance on drugs to treat mentally ill offenders.
Judges would have more powers to impose licences to get offenders to stay away from particular locations or individuals, or to send them for treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.
The review will also look at identifying children who are in danger of "going off the rails".
Penal policy
However, shadow home secretary David Davis said the review was "recognition of the abject failure of criminal justice policy in the last 10 years".
He said: "This rag bag of ill-thought-through ideas is likely to go the same way as government proposals for 'cash point fines for yobs' and 'night courts'.
"What we need is a clearly thought out penal policy that takes the worst criminals out of circulation, punishes them, gets them off drugs and, where possible, rehabilitates them.
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said it was a "welcome, if belated U-turn" on sentencing policy.
"We have been warning for years that New Labour's obsessive pursuit of headlines, over-reliance on ever more illiberal legislation and fanatical 'get tough' rhetoric do little to tackle either the fear of crime or its root causes," he said.
