LABOUR will today vow to double the number of community police on Britain’s streets to tackle the scourge of anti-social behaviour.
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds will hark back to Tony Blair by vowing to get tough on crime in a speech at the Labour conference today.
He will vow to “bring back neighbourhood policing” by recruiting at least 5,000 special constables a year-twice the current rate.
In an echo of Mr Blair’s famous vow to be “tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime” he will accuse the government of being “soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime”.
In a triple whammy policy pledge, he will vow to put a police hub in every community, create neighbourhood prevention teams to bring cops and community groups together, and beef up the number of special constables.
Special constables are volunteer cops with broadly the same powers as police but focus on community policing.
But as Labour pledged to get tough on crime, their shadow Justice Secretary said criminals who are sentenced to less than a year behind bars should not go to prison.
David Lammy also said judges should not be “putting more women in prison.”
He told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference: “When you put a woman in prison by and large, you’re condemning her children to the care system, or the criminal justice system.”
Speaking in Brighton, he added: “I don’t believe in short sentences” adding that he was talking about sentences “under six months but you could go up to under a year.”
He argued that prison wasn’t “cost effective” for minor crimes.
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