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| Scrapping the right to a jury trial for lesser offences that “clog up the courts” could save £30million a year in prosecutors’ costs alone, the government’s victims’ commissioner said yesterday. Louise Casey said almost 70,000 cases which could be heard by magistrates were making up more than 40 per cent of the crown court’s business every year, causing greater expense and leading to long delays for more serious cases. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel November 4, 2010 |
| Car insurance premiums are being pushed up by almost a third due to rising levels of fraud, experts warned today. The average comprehensive policy costs 30% more this year than last, according to AA insurance. | |
| Crime | The Daily Mail - September 4, 2010 |
| A woman who has campaigned tirelessly against drink-related violence since her husband was kicked to death by a gang of teenagers, including one from Crewe, is to be made a conservative peer. Helen Newlove, from Warrington, whose husband Garry was killed in 2007, has called for better training for pub workers and a more responsible drinking culture in the UK. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 25th May 2010 |
| The number of thefts from UK shops rose by a third in 2009. It is reported that an incident occurred nearly every minute, 24 hours a day, while incidents of violence and abuse against shop staff doubled, the British Retail Consortium’s Retail Crime Survey 2009 revealed in January. For the first time the survey assessed the proportion of retail crimes not reported to the police. It showed that retail crime of all types cost UK shops £1.1 billion in 2008/09, a 10% increase on the previous year and a sum equivalent to employing 72,000 retail staff. Physical violence against shop staff rose 58% and verbal abuse by 37%. | |
| Crime | Evangelicals Now, April 2010 |
| According to the latest statistics, domestic abuse is on the rise, with 50 per cent more women receiving support from domestic violence services than in 2003, at a cost of £23bn a year. Domestic abuse accounts for between 16 per cent and a quarter of all recorded violent crime and in any given year there are 13 million separate incidents of violence perpetrated against women by their partners or former partners. Two women a week are killed by them, a figure which makes up 40 per cent of all women homicide victims. | |
| Crime | The Universe – February 21st 2010 |
| Police hold the DNA profiles of more than 37,000 innocent people in Staffordshire and Cheshire. Figures released by the Liberal Democrats reveal the national DNA database holds the profiles of 102,502 people in Staffordshire, 21,320 of whom have not been convicted of any crime. The statistics say the DNA records of 78,453 people in Cheshire are stored, and 16,318 of those are innocent. Civil rights campaigners say keeping the profiles of people who have never been convicted is unethical and, in light of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in December 2008, unlawful. Judges in the S and Marper case said the “blanket and indiscriminate retention of DNA profiles and fingerprints of people arrested, but never convicted, amounted to an unlawful breach of their rights. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – February 8th 2010 |
| Ministers are to look again at cautions and on-the-spot fines, amid fears serious criminals are escaping justice. Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced the review of out-of-court punishments after criticism from senior police officers and prosecutors. The decision came after it was revealed up to 40,000 offenders were escaping with a caution every year, including rapists and violent thugs. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 10th November 2009 |
| Police are failing to send officers out to investigate more than a third of crimes committed in Staffordshire. Latest figures show 35% of the 85,000 reported crimes in the county were dismissed as unsolvable after initial phone conversations with victims last year. Officers are shelving cases as a way of focusing resources on areas and incidents where arrests are more likely to be made. The Staffordshire force received 85,237 reports of crime over the course of the last financial year. But only 55,405 were fully investigated at the scene, with the remaining 29,832 put on hold after a telephone-based assessment of the evidence. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 30th November 2009 |
| One in four burglary victims falls foul of identity fraudsters using snatched documents, it was claimed today. Householders are making life easier for thieves by leaving important paperwork bundled near their home computer, researchers found. Experts believe criminals are increasingly hunting for items such as passports, driving licences and utility bills. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 23 September 2009 |
| Police have launched an investigation into allegations of racist behaviour at a BNP festival. Derbyshire Police launched a probe into claims made by a Sunday newspaper that an undercover reporter witnessed the behaviour at the party’s Red, White and Blue festival in Codnor. The newspaper claims to have filmed members of the party burning a golly doll at the event. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 27 August 2009 |
| Nearly 500 criminal cases in Cheshire East have ended with an apology from offender to victim, thanks to the restorative justice programme. Cheshire Constabulary says this new approach to dealing with minor crimes has been very successful, allowing victims to gain closure and enabling offenders to address their criminal actions. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 31 July 2009 |
| Hundreds of innocent people have been branded criminals after errors by the Criminal Records Bureau more than doubled in a year. A total of 1,570 people, in the 12 months to 31 March had a criminal record wrongly attributed to them, were accused of offences more serious than those they had committed or were wrongly given a clean record. In the previous year the bureau, an agency of the Home Office, made 680 mistakes according to official figures. | |
| Crime | Salvationist- August 2009 |
| A gang of youths hurled a bottle of alcoholic drink through an ambulance window while medics were treating an elderly woman. Glass and the remains of the drink, hit the crew and their 70-year old patient in the incident near Banknock in Stirlingshire. The patient was taken onto the Stirling Royal Infirmary in another ambulance. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 10 August 2009 |
| The Mexican Government has apologised after police burst into a parish and interrupted Mass to arrest drug-cartel suspects. The incident happened in the western state of Michoacan. A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologised to the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Miguel Patino Velazquez of Apatzingan and the faithful “for the circumstances in which the operation had to be carried out”. The statement said that the raid in an Apatzingan parish was undertaken to avoid gunfire and a “violent incident”. The police operation resulted in the arrests of 33 alleged members of a cartel known as La Familia Michoacana and the seizure of cash, weapons, grenades and luxury vehicles. | |
| Crime | The Universe- August 2009 |
| A programme to tackle teenage knife crime has seen no reduction in the number of killings. The Tackling Knives Action Programme launched in 10 police areas in July last year, saw a 17% reduction in knife-related violence against under-20s. However, the number of under-20s killed by knives did not change. There were 23 deaths during the time of the scheme, the same as last year. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 22 July 2009 |
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