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forestjournal.co.uk THE JOURNAL, August 14, 2014 5Forest Newsdesk: 01722 426551 • Advertising 426500
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Have your say on crime
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Faith Moore with HenstingMars from Hensting Alpacas
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Winner of the mountain andmoorland hunter pony class SophieAlbery on WaylandTimberry fromWayland Stud, Hale DC5459P16 The heavy horse decorated harness DC5459P12
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Rachel and Euan Whitfield with Hollie Ireland andSqueek from Farm2Ewe DC5459P02
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HAMPSHIRE’S topcrime-fighter, SimonHayes, wants your viewson a range of sanctionsfor low-level crimes.
The CommunityRemedy (Anti-SocialBehaviour, Crime andPolicing Act 2014), intro-duced by theGovernment, is designedto provide a range ofmore effective measuresthrough out-of-court set-tlements.
Its supporters say thenew law places victims atthe heart of the criminaljustice system because itgives them a say in thepunishment of the offend-er.
Working closely withvictims and the police, theaim of CommunityRemedy is to administerfair, open punishments,delivering more rapid jus-tice for the victim, withthe offender facing imme-diate consequences fortheir crime.
Speaking aboutCommunity Remedy,Simon Hayes Police and
Crime Commissioner forHampshire, said: “Thisnew legislation fits wellwith my police and crimeplan.
“I pledged to addressthe impact of anti-socialbehaviour in our commu-nities by working in part-nership to reduce it.
“Under CommunityRemedy and with the pub-lic feedback, I will devel-op with the ChiefConstable a CommunityRemedy menu that is vic-tim-focused and reflectsthe wishes of local peo-ple.”
Community Remedywill only be used for first-time offenders when low-level crimes can be betterdealt with out of court,either as part of an infor-mal community resolu-tion, or with a more for-mal conditional policecaution.
This approach will onlybe used when the victim
is in full agreement, forcrimes like criminal dam-age, petty theft, minorassaults and anti-socialbehaviour.
Police will then invitethe victim to choose anappropriate sanctionfrom the CommunityRemedy menu.
Once this has beenagreed, the offender willthen be given the optionto either accept that pun-ishment, or choose to facethe more formal policeaction.
In order to contribute tothe public consultation goonline to theCommissioner’s websitewhich can be found atwww.surveymonkey.com/s/79VL3XNcommunityremedy.
The consultation will berunning until Sunday,September 14.
Hard copies of the sur-vey are available from thecommissioner’s office andcan be ordered by tele-phoning the office on01962 871595.
By Dermot [email protected]