From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>This is a taxpayer funded police quango, and it is a waste of money
>by any reasonable measure, as far as I can see.
Steve,
That may be so but ACPO have recently published a national guide
to case disposal. It purports to set out rules for deciding how cases should
be dealt with in the interests of "uniformity" nation-wide.
In other words people like Douglas Hurd who forget to renew their shotgun
certificates should be dealt with in the same way as career criminals found
in possession. (Perhaps this is a poor example <g>.)
This seems to go against the common law principle that justice should be
local and a man should be judged by his peers of the same County.
Regards, John Hurst.
PS. Jonathan Spencer asked for information about this in an earlier posting.
I don't know if it a public document yet and will get back to him.
PPS. Firearms offences get maximum points against them. There's a surprise.
--
I'm not sure but I think you'll find a lot of that is based on various
court decisions, there was one around 1992 that was in the High Court
and held that all Section 5 offences were absolute and should receive
custodial sentences.
Steve.
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