Met Chief Mark Rowley Warns Labour Crime Plans Are Unsustainable – Guido Fawkes

Met Chief Mark Rowley Warns Labour Crime Plans Are Unsustainable

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Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is pulling no punches on the morning round today as he slams Labour’s sentencing changes. Rowley has revealed that Mahmood’s hurried review made no impact assessment with regard to policing…

He said on the Today Programme: “This will generate a lot of extra work… a proportion of those offenders will be committing extra offenders.” The commissioner’s comments come after two rare overnight interventions:

1. Six police chiefs including Rowley say that Labour’s crime targets will fail without extra investment and Starmer’s “safer streets” pledge will die if cuts are made at the Spending Review.
2. The chiefs of MI5, the Met and the NCA have warned Mahmood against her sentencing changes because they are a “net detriment to public safety.” They deem electronic tagging plans ineffective and warn that the necessary resources are not in place to deal with early releases. So Gauke was wrong all along?

In addition Rowley has come out in favour of releasing the ethnic identity of alleged criminals as soon as possible:

“In general I think we have to be realistic and put more personal details in public earlier. It creates all sorts of practical problems but we are in such an age of citizen journalism – people have screenshots, phones. Some content will be all over social media very quickly. People will be making guesses and inferences. I think in that world putting more facts out is the only way to deal with it. If those facts generate some emboldened racists on some cases then we need to confront those individuals. I think trying to avoid truths when half the truth is in the public domain is going to be very difficult going forward.”

The tide is turning here…