The Criminal Justice system has been the recipient of devastating cuts to its budget, leaving it in a terrible state.  We are reaping what has been sown with the result that we are seeing ‘woefully low crime detection rates’; an explosion in the use of Release under Investigation; prosecution rates down 30%, empty court rooms and increasing waiting times in the most serious of cases. 

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