00:00Sky News reported that Metropolitan Police officers will not respond to curfew or tag
00:05batteries breaches lasting less than an hour unless the person is considered a particular
00:11risk to the public as it warned criminal justice pressures cannot always fall on policing.
00:19The Met will still review the cases but arrest will only be considered if there is a risk or
00:26safeguarding concern. High risk offenders such as domestic abusers will be prioritized.
00:34The scheme runs until spring and will only apply to those on court bail.
00:40A Met police spokesperson has said where offenders have briefly stepped outside for a cigarette
00:46or police are notified 19 hours later that they were 15 minutes late returning home
00:52tying up several officers for hours is not the best use of resources.
00:57The force responds to more than 100 tagging breaches a day and many a low level with no
01:04consequences in the court system. Earlier this month Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley warned that 95%
01:10plus of the tagging breaches that they arrest are simply being bailed back into the community
01:16on the same condition so there is zero sanction. He added in such cases the Met and its partners
01:23are looking at the most appropriate penalties or consequences in order that police time can be better
01:28to be considered an ACCpaid breaches. He added in such cases of threat, guilty and即
01:29that is why he is here to call this young man, his mother and his contact court is set to
01:29the
01:29police union. And that's why we are certainly not at all, we
01:29are involved in such cases where he is at the police union, because
01:29we are an unknown, that's why the police union is not very important.
