Member

This change would speed up the criminal justice process. It would reduce considerably the financial burden on the taxpayer and the massive number of police hours committed. Everything we hear from the current Government, with which I have huge amounts of sympathy, says that there is a need to reduce pressure on the public purse and to speed up police time in being able to get on to the streets and do what I think all of us hope they will do: spending time on the streets, supporting victims, catching criminals, not spending hours redacting lots of images from body-worn cameras just in case the CPS happens to use that in a charging decision. I look forward to hearing from the Minister in due course.