The end of Car-jacking??
17 March 2002, 05:23 PM
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Labour has issued the following:-
Home Secretary David Blunkett is promising to reclaim the streets by launching a blitz on muggers, carjackers and ******-thieves in 10 street-crime blackspots.
The Robbery Reduction Initiative will aim to bring police and court authorities together to focus their efforts on increasing the detection rate for street robberies and speeding up the time from arrest to sentence.
It comes against a backdrop of soaring street crime, which rose by 13% in 2000-01, and has increased further this year, despite a general decline in crime overall.
The initiative due to begin in April will mean more officers on the streets and better support for victims and witnesses in 10 English police forces. They are The Metropolitan Police, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Avon and Somerset, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Thames Valley and Lancashire.
Initially focusing on mugging, it will swiftly expand to target illegally-held weapons, street drug-dealing and crack-houses, which Mr Blunkett described as the "drivers" of street crime.
A new cross-Government action group, chaired by the Home Secretary, is to be created to look at the whole criminal justice system and deal with any obstacles that get in the way of tackling street crime.
In a sign of the high priority the Government is giving the problem, the first meeting of the action group will be chaired by Tony Blair.
Mr Blunkett said: "We are facing head-on the thuggery and violence on our streets.We literally must reclaim our streets for the decent law-abiding citizens who want no more than to be able to walk safely, to live peacefully, and to go about their business freely, untroubled by the fear of attack.
Some 82% of all street robbery in England and Wales occurs in these areas, with 78,071 muggings recorded in the 12 months to March 2001.
In addition to the Ten Forces initiative, pilot projects dealing specifically with juvenile robbery offenders will begin in April in Hackney, east London and Longsight, Manchester.
Will it help??
Pete
Home Secretary David Blunkett is promising to reclaim the streets by launching a blitz on muggers, carjackers and ******-thieves in 10 street-crime blackspots.
The Robbery Reduction Initiative will aim to bring police and court authorities together to focus their efforts on increasing the detection rate for street robberies and speeding up the time from arrest to sentence.
It comes against a backdrop of soaring street crime, which rose by 13% in 2000-01, and has increased further this year, despite a general decline in crime overall.
The initiative due to begin in April will mean more officers on the streets and better support for victims and witnesses in 10 English police forces. They are The Metropolitan Police, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Avon and Somerset, South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Thames Valley and Lancashire.
Initially focusing on mugging, it will swiftly expand to target illegally-held weapons, street drug-dealing and crack-houses, which Mr Blunkett described as the "drivers" of street crime.
A new cross-Government action group, chaired by the Home Secretary, is to be created to look at the whole criminal justice system and deal with any obstacles that get in the way of tackling street crime.
In a sign of the high priority the Government is giving the problem, the first meeting of the action group will be chaired by Tony Blair.
Mr Blunkett said: "We are facing head-on the thuggery and violence on our streets.We literally must reclaim our streets for the decent law-abiding citizens who want no more than to be able to walk safely, to live peacefully, and to go about their business freely, untroubled by the fear of attack.
Some 82% of all street robbery in England and Wales occurs in these areas, with 78,071 muggings recorded in the 12 months to March 2001.
In addition to the Ten Forces initiative, pilot projects dealing specifically with juvenile robbery offenders will begin in April in Hackney, east London and Longsight, Manchester.
Will it help??
Pete
17 March 2002, 06:45 PM
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82%, No crime will not move out of the areas designated, bearing in mind that about 95% of the population live in the 10 designated areas, it would have been quicker to list those places not listed as hot spots!
17 March 2002, 09:49 PM
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He'll have to get the Police on his side first.....and with over 10000 protesting outside Parliament this week its gonna be a struggle if they start leaving....
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19 March 2002, 01:03 PM
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I'd just like to add that it's not just Scoobs and EVO's being targeted but Mondeos and Vectra's too. In fact any car that has the latest security, where it's easier to take the keys....
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19 March 2002, 01:05 PM
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I'd just like to add that it's not just Scoobs and EVO's being targeted but Mondeos and Vectra's too. In fact any car that has the latest security, where it's easier to take the keys....
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