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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 |
Tony Blair yesterday accepted that levels of crime and the fear of crime remained too high, as he published a five-year plan aimed at reducing crime by 15% by 2008.
Guardian
5:03:12 PM 
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Judges have attacked government reforms aimed at preventing rape victims being questioned in court over their sexual history as "fundamentally flawed".
The law was introduced in 2001 to stop alleged sex offences victims being asked about their sex lives unless the information was relevant to the case.
But a Criminal Bar Association report says the legislation is too restrictive as it denies judges discretion.
BBC
5:02:38 PM
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Criminals are being encouraged by a new police unit to come clean about other offences when in custody.
Some 400 offences have been solved in Oxfordshire through the work of the Persistent Offender Intervention Team.
Thames Valley Police say that under the scheme, set up in April, criminals can "wipe the slate clean" and will not have their sentence increased.
BBC
5:01:59 PM
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Violent crime has broken the million-a-year mark for the first time, the Home Office will reveal this week.
The rise - more than 20 per cent in some police areas - underlines the urgency of Labour's clampdown on law and order launched yesterday.
As Premier Tony Blair and Home Secretary David Blunkett got tough, in the wake of the Daily Mirror's Reclaim Our Streets campaign, a senior Home Office source said the latest annual crime statistics would be "bad news".
Mirror
5:01:13 PM
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Europe's justice ministers have met to discuss developing information exchange networks for criminal records across the EU.
Information sharing in this field has "simply not kept pace with developments in the area of free movement" warned the Dutch presidency.
ePolitix
5:00:18 PM
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A pocket of north London a few miles from Wembley stadium is a no go area for seven young men as a result of David Blunkett's crackdown on antisocial behaviour.
But nine months after five-year exclusion orders were issued against the teenagers, who go by the name of the Press Road gang, the policy is being questioned in the high court and residents say the Asbos have done nothing to improve the quality of their lives. In 12 months, residents in a street off Neasden Lane reported more than 200 incidents of robbery, burglary, criminal damage and vehicle crime allegedly carried out by the group.
Guardian
4:59:40 PM
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Measures taken to tackle child porn on the internet have been outlined by the UK's National Crime Squad (NCS).
The use of online sting operations, in addition to close ties with internet service providers and police forces worldwide are among techniques used.
BBC
4:58:40 PM
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© Copyright 2004 Nick Page.
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Updated: 29/7/04; 9:01:35 am.
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