Member

The first, Amendment 425, suggests that service as a police officer—that is, present or past service—should be an aggravating factor in criminal sentencing. If I were to venture a guess as to what might be in my noble friend the Minister’s advice and speaking note—I see that he is checking—it would be that this amendment is unnecessary because sentences would already, of course, take into account service as a police officer. I am not talking about the brave and wonderful police officers we were discussing in the previous group, but about those who have been convicted, and, in particular, convicted of very serious offences, including the gravest ones, such as Wayne Couzens.