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MET; a cut too far?
The MET police in London announced this week that it was ‘not practical’ to investigate certain low level crimes in London due to a strain on budget and future savings that are required to be made. According to New Scotland Yard, there would be a shift towards ‘empowering our officers’ to assess for themselves whether it was proportionate to investigate offences such as shoplifting, criminal...Read More
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Minor offences: proportionality in extradition
Can I be extradited for a minor offence? Every so often, there are newspaper reports of people facing extradition for what appear to be minor offences; for example, recently there were reports of a man wanted in Greece for offences of joyriding and criminal damage. We have recently dealt with a case where a man was wanted in Poland for ‘abusing a police officer’ and refusing to put an advert...Read More
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