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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Danny Shaw |Charles Hymas
Other proposals will further scale back people's right to a jury trial for some lower level offences such as assault of a police officer while resisting arrest, racially aggravated criminal damage, dangerous driving and possessing a class B drug like cannabis.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Danny Shaw |Ben Butcher
In 2023, a productivity review led by two former chief constables identified 26 ways of freeing-up 38 million hours of police time. That would equate to 20,000 extra police officers. The recommendations included cutting red tape, reducing sickness absence and using computer technology for clerical tasks. A second report from the productivity panel, in 2024, said a further 23 million hours could be saved - including through the expansion of AI.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Danny Shaw |Charles Hymas
Martyn Underhill, a former Met detective and Dorset's first police and crime commissioner, said he had backed the need for an inquiry into activities that were a "stain on policing", but he added: "The time taken, and the spiralling costs, are now becoming a national embarrassment, akin to the Bloody Sunday inquiry.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charles Hymas |Danny Shaw
The centuries-old tradition where judges enter courts with the request "All rise" is to be replaced with an "inclusive" modern alternative of "All rise, if able". Officials in charge of courts in England and Wales have decreed that the change will be introduced across all courtrooms in the coming weeks to help to create "a more welcoming environment" for defendants, witnesses and members of the public who may be disabled.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
msn.com | Charles Hymas |Danny Shaw
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charles Hymas |Danny Shaw
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Jan 23, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Hymas |Danny Shaw
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
trtespanol.com | Danny Shaw
La República de Haití no es solo el país más pobre del hemisferio occidental: es el más explotado, el más incomprendido y el más desigual. Haití tiene la tasa de millonarios más alta de cualquier país de América.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
aol.co.uk | Rajeev Syal |Danny Shaw
Prisoners serving controversial indeterminate sentences were given minimum terms of less than six months but have remained in jail for at least 16 years, newly released data shows. A total of five inmates serving sentences known as imprisonment for public protection (IPP) in England and Wales were handed tariffs less than six months, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data shows.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Charles Hymas |Danny Shaw
Burglars, drug dealers and fraudsters serving five-year jail sentences could be released to go home after just one year under new plans to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis. Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, announced on Tuesday that the Government will extend the amount of time offenders freed from jail can spend under house-arrest from six months to 12 months.
