[Chicon]

Offenders on probation carry out 10,000 crimes a month

By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent
(Filed: 14/05/2006)

Ten thousand crimes are being committed every month by offenders still under the "supervision" of the Probation Service, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

The offences - recorded in internal Home Office documents - cover the whole range of offences, from theft and assault, to rape and murder.

It is the first time exact figures have been put on the number committing offences while on probation. Each month, an average of 7,846 criminals on probation are arrested, cautioned or convicted of a new offence - covering a total of 10,206 crimes.

Link : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...C-new_14052006

[GoneForNow]

Originally Posted by Chicon

Link : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...C-new_14052006

I think we should study the problem....say spend 60 million on the study. I happen to know that is about how much we have once we don't study the prison rape problem.

[slickoe]

Yes, we should begin a dialogue on sponsoring hearings to discuss a resolution on forming a steering committee to seriously discuss the issue.

[GoneForNow]

Originally Posted by slickoe

Yes, we should begin a dialogue on sponsoring hearings to discuss a resolution on forming a steering committee to seriously discuss the issue.

Ahhh..... a former military man who understands one of the two methodologies of resolving a problem. The other is blow it up and/or shoot it dead. Sometimes it's a coin toss as to which method to implement.

[Chicon]

Originally Posted by slickoe

Yes, we should begin a dialogue on sponsoring hearings to discuss a resolution on forming a steering committee to seriously discuss the issue.

Hi slickoe,

You sound like a typical Belgian social-cultural moderator with long hair, thick glasses and a falsetto voice !

[GoneForNow]

Originally Posted by Chicon

Hi slickoe,

You sound like a typical Belgian social-cultural moderator with long hair, thick glasses and a falsetto voice !

That I'd like to see. Is it considered to be in bad taste in Belgium to point and giggle?

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Originally Posted by gbrumb

That I'd like to see. Is it considered to be in bad taste in Belgium to point and giggle?

Not at all ! Belgian people are generally humourous.