It’s back of the net for team Jenrick as their mini-campaign to force the government to publish nationality data about foreign offenders living in the UK comes to fruition. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told civil servants they must publish the data before the year is out, showing both the nationality of offenders and the crimes committed by those listed for deportation. Foreign national offenders are automatically deported if sentenced to 12 months or more in prison, but many say it should be automatic for any criminal offence…
The BBC reports: “Home Office figures are expected to show the main three nationalities for foreign criminals living in the community are Albanians, Romanians and Poles. It is understood their most common offences were the production of drugs, theft and robbery, and acts of violent assault.” It’s a big win for Bobby J, whose relentless work ethic is putting most Tories to shame…
Co-conspirators who frequent the capital are now fairly likely to have had a phone or bike nabbed by thieves. A phone is now stolen in London every six minutes…
Guido hears from the Home Office that the department has fully developed a beefed up set of new rules which would allow police officers to enter premises without a warrant in order to seize stolen devices with GPS tracking. Such a change enter legislation…
The Home Office newsdesk has been contacted for comment. Sources tell Guido that the policy, once fully greenlit, will appear in Labour’s Crime and Policing Bill – that’s not due for some time yet. Alterations could still be made before it goes through parliament…
The minister in charge of policing had her purse stolen at a conference about…policing. Crime, Policing and Fire minister Diana Johnson met with senior police officers earlier today when her wallet was nicked, having just spoken at the conference bemoaning the “epidemic of anti-social behaviour, theft and shoplifting”. You couldn’t make it up…
The incident sent the Home Office into hight alert as they are now “probing security risks” while Warwickshire Police have confirmed they are investigating the theft. Let’s hope it wasn’t one of those early released prisoners…
Labour’s election manifesto features an endorsement from former Detective Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, an approval Labour hoped would bolster their promise to crack down on crime. Though Thomas hasn’t been one to encourage the full force of the law on some serious offenders…
Back in 2016, Thomas called for a review of the sex offenders register and a debate about diverting some paedophiles into treatment rather than imprisoning them. Speaking of his concerns about there not being enough room to jail all paedophiles, he said: “Should we be going down the criminal justice route or, based on a proper assessment, should we be going down the health route?” Thomas also argued that young hackers should face “virtual prisons” rather than jail-time, proposing the use of wi-fi jammers and educational programmes rather than the “19th century punishments to deal with 21st century crimes.” Not exactly a model of ‘tough on crime’…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”