Private Security Firm Mounts UK’s First Private Prosecutions for Theft as Police Refuse to Take Offenders to Court
3rd January 2020
The private firm, which provides neighbourhood policing to residents, firms and shops, says it has set up a new prosecution unit after its teams have apprehended shoplifters, pickpockets and drug dealers only to be told by officers called to the scene to release them.
The former senior Metropolitan police officers who run the My Local Bobby service blame cuts in police numbers which meant officers were reluctant to spend time and valuable resource investigating and prosecuting minor offences.
A breakdown in law enforcement is the first step on the road to being a ‘failed state’.
UPDATE: Tens of thousands of thieves are escaping justice, Telegraph analysis reveals