Street Crime Prosecutions 2024-09-12

2024-09-12

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Q1 Partial Answer
Polly Billington Lab
East Thanet
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Street crime, including antisocial behaviour and drug dealing, continues to be a significant issue in town centres like Ramsgate and Margate.
What steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of street crime. This includes concern about people's anxiety about giving evidence against criminals, leading to ongoing issues with antisocial behaviour, drug dealing, and knife crime.
The Government are committed to tackling street crime by increasing neighbourhood policing, recruiting more prosecutors, and bringing forward laws to ban zombie knives and machetes. The Prime Minister met with police, victims, families, and media companies specifically to discuss knife crime and promised to halve these crimes in the next decade.
Assessment & feedback
The specific steps to give people confidence that prosecutions will flow after they have given evidence were not detailed.
Response accuracy
Q2 Partial Answer
Polly Billington Lab
East Thanet
Context
Street crime, including antisocial behaviour and drug dealing, continues to be a significant issue in town centres like Ramsgate and Margate.
What steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of street crime. This includes concern about people's anxiety about giving evidence against criminals, leading to ongoing issues with antisocial behaviour, drug dealing, and knife crime.
The Government are committed to tackling street crime by increasing neighbourhood policing, recruiting more prosecutors, and bringing forward laws to ban zombie knives and machetes. The Prime Minister met with police, victims, families, and media companies specifically to discuss knife crime and promised to halve these crimes in the next decade.
Assessment & feedback
The specific steps to give people confidence that prosecutions will flow after they have given evidence were not detailed.
Response accuracy