27 March 2007
Plans to target offenders and extend public services reform to the criminal justice system are among a raft of measures unveiled by the Prime Minister today.
Speaking at a major conference on public service delivery, Mr Blair said that new effective prevention measures would target the 100,000 criminals who commit half of all crime.
- Read the speech (coming soon)
Under the plans, judges would be allowed to issue a prolific offender licence to limit what an offender can do, once released from prison.
If broken, the offender could be arrested pending a court hearing where a Judge would be able to give punishments up to 3 years in jail.
"These measures are the best way to tackle the hard core of criminals," Tony Blair said.
"These people have serious problems and targeting the offender means taking those problems seriously. And we have proof that it works."
Other measures include ways to reduce red tape and give the police more control over their budgets.
The proposals form part of the Government’s ongoing policy review. Today’s paper, Building on progress: Security, crime and justice, is the second to be published so far.
- Download Building on progress: Security, crime and justice - pdf 4,198 kbs
- Read the latest crime stats - pdf 162 kbs
More strands of the review will be published in the coming weeks.
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