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Easy News: Party views on police and crime

Easy News: Party views on police and crime

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  1. 1: Conservative views on police and crime

    1. The Conservatives want to recruit 8,000 more police officers over the next 3 years

    2. They want to give police new powers to seize knives and stolen goods and stop protests that could create a lot of trouble.

    3. They want to license police officers for specialist roles, as happens for firearms officers, with appropriate vetting and sacking those who fail.

    4. They would cut antisocial behaviour in town centres by putting police in areas that are known for trouble.

    5. They want to increase prison sentences for the most serious crimes, including a minimum prison sentence of 25 years for murders in the home.

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  2. 2: Labour party views of police and crime

    1. Labour want to put more 13,000 more police and community support officers in communities to help stop crime.

    2. They want to create a rape unit in every police force, put rape specialists in every 999 control room and in court rooms, to better support rape victims. Rape is when someone has sex with someone else by putting their penis inside their vagina, anus or mouth without their consent.

    3. They would make hate crime laws better. A hate crime is violent or theatening behaviour aimed at someone because of their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity.

    4. They want to tackle antisocial behaviour with new Respect Orders - powers to ban adults who keep behaving badly from town centres. Antisocial behaviour is behaviour that may cause offence or harm to other people, such as being loud and aggressive in public, or damaging public property.

    5. They would build new prison places to stop prisoners being let out early because of lack of room and do more to stop criminals doing more illegal things once they let out.

    6. They want to do more to stop knife crime, including tougher sanctions for having or selling machetes, zombie knives and swords.

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  3. 3: Liberal Democrats views of police and crime

    1. The Liberal Democrats would give a legal guarantee that police will attend and properly investigate all burglaries

    2. They would improve community policing, with officers focusing on preventing and solving crimes – especially rape and other violent crime

    3. They would invest more money in the criminal justice system to stop so many cases waiting for a long time to get to court.

    4. They would improve rehabilitation in prisons and strengthen the supervision of offenders in the community. Rehabilitation is when prisoners are taught to try and change their ways, understand why they did something wrong, and lead better lives when they leave prison.

    5. They would ensure the criminal justice process supports survivors of violence against women and girls and make misogyny a hate crime. Misogyny is hate or prejudice against women.

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  4. 4: The Green Party views on police and crime

    1. The Greens would end the routine use of stop-and-search and of facial recognition software to help rebuild trust in the police. Stop and search is when police stop members of the public to check for drugs or knives based on the way they look.

    2. They would invest £2.5bn to repair and renew the court system

    3. They would replace most prison sentences of under 2 years with different programmes such as community service. Community service is when criminals have to do good in the community, such as volunteering or tidying public areas, instead of going to prison.

    4. They would make it legal for people to have drugs meant only for their own use, and give people drug addiction treatment and other support. Drug addiction is when someone cannot stop themselves from taking drugs even when it s damaging their life.

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  5. 5: Reform's views on police and crime

    1. Reform would increase police officer numbers by 40,000 over 5 years

    2. They would slowly stop having police and community support officers (PCSOs) and scrap all diversity, equality and inclusion roles. These are roles that try to make sure everyone is treated equally.

    3. They would take a zero-tolerance approach to crime and antisocial behaviour

    4. They would change the definition of a hate crime so less complaints need to be investigated by the police.

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