by Sean Caulfield | Sep 13, 2021 | Crime
According to the findings of a new study, a third of victims of crime would never report a crime again because they had such a poor experience with the police. The survey was conducted by the Victim’s Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird. It involved almost 600 victims of a...
by Sean Caulfield | Aug 26, 2021 | Crime
According to new data from the Ministry of Justice, average sentence lengths for violent and sexual offences fell steeply last year in England and Wales. The average custodial sentence length for violent crimes fell by 22 per cent to 18.5 months and the figure for...
by Sean Caulfield | Aug 2, 2021 | Crime
New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Crime Survey for England and Wales has revealed that fraud and computer misuse offences have risen by more than a third in England and Wales in the year to March 2021. The Crime Survey showed that there were an...
by Sean Caulfield | Jul 29, 2021 | Crime
The Government has announced the Beating Crime Plan in a bid to protect victims of crime and help make the streets safer. The measures build on existing steps to toughen sentences to keep the most dangerous offenders behind bars and the delivery of almost half of the...
by Sean Caulfield | Jul 20, 2021 | Crime
Racially and religiously motivated hate crimes hit a new high in 2020 according to data from the Home Office. A total of 61,851 racially and religiously aggravated offences were recorded last year, a figure up 7 per cent on the 57,825 offences recorded during 2019....
by Sean Caulfield | Jul 13, 2021 | Crime
The Knife Crime Prevention Order pilot scheme is underway in London in a bid to prevent young people from carrying knives and becoming heavily embroiled in serious violence. The Knife Crime Prevention Order pilot will be trialled by the Metropolitan Police Service for...
