No Point Arresting Shoplifters When Courts Set Them Free, Says Policing Chief
Britain’s shoplifting tsar has slammed the “madness” of arresting thieves only for courts to free them. The Telegraphhas the story.
Katy Bourne, the national lead for shoplifting at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said it was “madness” how many times thieves had to be arrested before ending up behind bars.
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex said prisons were full and offenders were not being sent to jail, so the criminal justice system had to find alternative methods to stop repeat offenders. …
Ms Bourne said: “If prison is not an option – and I think it should be, but at the moment it clearly isn’t as there are no places – then we’ve got to find credible alternatives.
“People have got to know that they’re going to get caught, and that there’s a meaningful deterrent when they do. There is no point arresting shoplifters if there is no effective deterrent.”
Katy Bourne
Ms Bourne’s intervention comes after police in North Wales sparked a huge public backlash when a shop owner was spoken to for putting up a sign calling shoplifters “scumbags”.
She said she feared that the country had reached a point “where police forces are more worried about upsetting career criminals rather than catching them”.
She said: “Successive parliaments have contributed to an indigestible legislative layer cake of rights and data protection laws and police guidance that treats the greedy, the ruthless and feckless with kid gloves.”
Ms Bourne said offenders needed a “metaphorical punch on the nose” with “robust police intervention followed swiftly by meaningful criminal justice measures that deter and prevent them from re-offending”.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Government has made tackling the shoplifting epidemic one of its key priorities, but a record high of nearly three thefts were carried out every minute in the year to this March.
The reality of the situation is feared to be much worse, with many shopkeepers so demoralised by repeated thefts that they no longer report every incident to the police. …
Ms Bourne has spearheaded a pioneering scheme in which shoplifters will be subject to GPS tagging and rehabilitation orders issued by courts. They could then be banned from shops from which they have stolen or given curfews to stop their thieving. …
The criminals, including burglars, shoplifters and knife offenders, will instead face community sentences under the plans to scrap most jail terms of under 12 months.
Prisons are allegedly full, yet they can always find room for the keyboard warriors or people that attend protests and shout at police dogs. Yeah right. They pick and choose who walks and who gets sent down, irrespective of what they’ve done because it’s all about the agenda they’re pushing. Patriots = enemy of the state.
It would appear that thieving has now been essentially decriminalised and downgraded, much the same as the sicko creeps that possess images of child sex abuse. They never ever do time either. As if it’s just another form of porn, like those kids are consenting to what’s being done to them like the adults who work in the sex industry. Paedophilia being minimised because we’re meant to be more accepting and show them sympathy. Will these deviants also be subject to GPS tagging?
“You cannot take any people, of any colour, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioural standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large” Thomas Sowell
Undeniable proof that ‘two-tier justice’ is alive and well in the UK, I highly recommend this excellent summary, showcasing many of the non-violent protesters and keyboard warriors arrested and prosecuted as a result of the unrest following the Southport mass-child massacre, including if they’re still in prison or have been released; ”Unlike white working-class suspects, The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and police forces failed to charge and prosecute certain minorities for racially aggravated offences during the unrest. Authorities add aggravating offences to existing charges if they appear to motivated by xenophobia, often resulting in harsher sentences. In Middlesbrough, for example, the CPS did not charge Ameer Khalile with racially aggravated public disorder after he chased a man, stamped on his head, and shouted “white racist scum.” Similar occurred in Birmingham. Amar Hussain attacked a pub-goers while seeking “far-right” groups, leaving Sean McDonagh with a lacerated liver. The CPS and West Midlands Police did not charge him with racial aggravation. Certain members of the judiciary gave non-violent protesters harsher sentences than violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters in 2020. Jonathan Daley, for example, drop-kicked a Metropolitan Police officer during civil unrest, pleaded guilty to violent disorder under the Public Order Act 1986, like many non-violent… Read more »
The Assoc of Police and Crime Commissioners is another quango that needs to be abolished. Any useful functions should be back in the Min of Justice or Home Office.
Outfits like that are means by which elites impose their values without public debate. There are many of them.
Just more evidence of civilisational decline. Crime goes unpunished. Fake plandemics. Endless wars. A penis is a vagina. Co2 causes ‘climate’. Bacteria became you etc etc. The wall and its writing could not be more clear.
The large supermarket near my home employed a charming gentleman as its security guard — a man in his early 60s and a retired mental health nurse. He lasted only about six months before being assaulted so badly that his cheekbone was broken and his eye dislodged.
In conversation, he told me that after many years working with mental health patients he could recognise such issues easily. His estimate was that around 20% of the average customer base showed signs of some form of mental illness — but that among shoplifters, the figure was virtually 100%.
Build more prisons? Except capacity is not the real root cause – the courts are choosing to not imprison people…
davidcraig68
8 months ago
Wentn to buy the Sunday newspapers in my local Co-op a couple of weeks ago. In the five minutes I was there, I saw two cases of shoplifting (theft) and the staff could sdo nothing.
Jackthegripper
7 months ago
Cut a finger off each time they offend. Good Old Testament punishment.
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Prisons are allegedly full, yet they can always find room for the keyboard warriors or people that attend protests and shout at police dogs. Yeah right. They pick and choose who walks and who gets sent down, irrespective of what they’ve done because it’s all about the agenda they’re pushing. Patriots = enemy of the state.
It would appear that thieving has now been essentially decriminalised and downgraded, much the same as the sicko creeps that possess images of child sex abuse. They never ever do time either. As if it’s just another form of porn, like those kids are consenting to what’s being done to them like the adults who work in the sex industry. Paedophilia being minimised because we’re meant to be more accepting and show them sympathy. Will these deviants also be subject to GPS tagging?
“You cannot take any people, of any colour, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioural standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large”
Thomas Sowell
Undeniable proof that ‘two-tier justice’ is alive and well in the UK, I highly recommend this excellent summary, showcasing many of the non-violent protesters and keyboard warriors arrested and prosecuted as a result of the unrest following the Southport mass-child massacre, including if they’re still in prison or have been released; ”Unlike white working-class suspects, The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and police forces failed to charge and prosecute certain minorities for racially aggravated offences during the unrest. Authorities add aggravating offences to existing charges if they appear to motivated by xenophobia, often resulting in harsher sentences. In Middlesbrough, for example, the CPS did not charge Ameer Khalile with racially aggravated public disorder after he chased a man, stamped on his head, and shouted “white racist scum.” Similar occurred in Birmingham. Amar Hussain attacked a pub-goers while seeking “far-right” groups, leaving Sean McDonagh with a lacerated liver. The CPS and West Midlands Police did not charge him with racial aggravation. Certain members of the judiciary gave non-violent protesters harsher sentences than violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters in 2020. Jonathan Daley, for example, drop-kicked a Metropolitan Police officer during civil unrest, pleaded guilty to violent disorder under the Public Order Act 1986, like many non-violent… Read more »
The Assoc of Police and Crime Commissioners is another quango that needs to be abolished. Any useful functions should be back in the Min of Justice or Home Office.
Outfits like that are means by which elites impose their values without public debate. There are many of them.
Bring back town square stocks, eggs and rotting vegetables. Seriously. Social humiliation will reduce petty crime in a heartbeat.
And would be very therapeutic for those with the eggs and rotting vegetables. Could help with “Mental Elf” too.
What about the birch?
From Mr. Inbetween:
“The world is full of assholes, Ray, you do realize that?”
“Yeah, and you know why? Because people let ’em get away with it.”
Just more evidence of civilisational decline. Crime goes unpunished. Fake plandemics. Endless wars. A penis is a vagina. Co2 causes ‘climate’. Bacteria became you etc etc. The wall and its writing could not be more clear.
The large supermarket near my home employed a charming gentleman as its security guard — a man in his early 60s and a retired mental health nurse. He lasted only about six months before being assaulted so badly that his cheekbone was broken and his eye dislodged.
In conversation, he told me that after many years working with mental health patients he could recognise such issues easily. His estimate was that around 20% of the average customer base showed signs of some form of mental illness — but that among shoplifters, the figure was virtually 100%.
Build more prisons? Except capacity is not the real root cause – the courts are choosing to not imprison people…
Wentn to buy the Sunday newspapers in my local Co-op a couple of weeks ago. In the five minutes I was there, I saw two cases of shoplifting (theft) and the staff could sdo nothing.
Cut a finger off each time they offend. Good Old Testament punishment.