LOOK SO FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, ANYONE CAUGHT TRAVELLING AT SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF 100MPH (IN A PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO GET A SO-CALLED 'BUZZ') WHILST DRIVING A MODERN HIGH PERFORMANCE CAR ON A NEAR DESERTED PUBLIC ROAD WITH 100% VISIBILTIY SHOULD BE LINED UP AND F***ING-WELL SHOT. SELFISH SOCIALLY-IRRESPONSIBLE LETHAL DEATH-MONGERERS THE F***ING LOT OF 'EM

(FFS: that's me first in line then......... )

Mike

 

jail seems to serve no purpose.

as proved in this case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7011175.stm

i feel really sorry for the inocent couple killed by this scum.

 

I do truly despair when looking at a youth like that. FFS: call me a fascist if you like, but, in all honesty, what use is THAT sorry waste-of-air f***witted specimen EVER going to be to ANYONE.

 

nothing anymore.

 

My neighbour is a Sergeant in the police.

He explained, from a police viewpoint what the CPS do.

We are all being told that the police have no targets (often when defending the argument about speeding) - this is true.

What's not widely publicised is that the CPS have targets, and their budget depends on the successful attainment of these targets. Thanks to a series of widely publicised collapses of major trials due to loopholes and insufficient evidence, the government decided that the CPS couldn't be trusted to run their own affairs any longer, and that they could save money by trying to only prosecute the 'sure things'.

So, what happens?

Basically the CPS will no longer proceed to court unless the case has a (in Simon's words) "Greater than 95% chance of success".

In theory this is good, we never see those big trials which last for weeks, wasting millions of 'taxpayer's money' (great phrase that, allows the spin doctors to make Joe Public feel outraged) on big trials which collapse and allow 'bad people' to go free. So far so good.

The problem is that targets are also set for the number of convictions made.

So who's easier to convict?

The middle class speeder who holds up his hands and admits to everything (especially if they've been made to feel guilty for being a speeding killer...) or the seasoned criminal who will do all he can to obfuscate and hamper the case against him? You guessed it....
An additional benefit for a big spending government is that the middle class speeder will cough up without complaint, the criminal underclass will be ordered to pay

 

That rings true.

But why don't they therefore convict more motorists through the courts rather than through a mags court?

And surely it would make sense to have diiferent targets for different crimes.

'm still unsure who controls the CPS.

 

Each regional office has a Chief Crown Prosecutor, who is the senior member for that region and heads that office. They answer to the Director of Public Prosections (currently Sir Ken McDonald QC), a government-appointed official who in turn answers to the Attorney General.

 

So it's a statutory organisation or not?

 

I think, strictly speaking, it is a non-ministrerial department of the Crown.

 

Civil servants.