Context
Street crime, including antisocial behaviour and drug dealing, continues to be a significant issue in town centres like Ramsgate and Margate.
Question
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.
Answer from Sarah Sackman
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.
Not addressed: The specific steps to give people confidence that prosecutions will flow after they have given evidence were not detailed.
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