Categories: News
      Date: Jan 19, 2010
     Title: Put the law back on the side of local people across Telford, says Tom Biggins

Tom Biggins today strongly endorsed radical and bold new plans – set out in the Conservatives’ draft election manifesto – to tackle crime and to restore confidence in Britain’s ‘broken’ criminal justice system.

Tom Biggins, Conservative Candidate for Telford, today strongly endorsed radical and bold new plans – set out in the Conservatives’ draft election manifesto – to tackle crime and to restore confidence in Britain’s ‘broken’ criminal justice system.

• Their importance is underlined by new analysis revealing that there were 2,540 violent attacks on people across Telford and Wrekin in the last year. Under the manifesto plans, a Conservative Government would: 

• Give Telford citizens greater protection if they have to defend themselves against intruders in their homes, or if they stop a crime being committed in the street.
• Create fifteen new rape crisis centres across the country, and give all existing rape crisis centres stable, long-term funding.
• Grant the Borough Council new powers to fight booze-fuelled antisocial behaviour in Warrington and stop supermarkets selling alcohol at below cost-price which is destroying law-abiding local pubs and fuelling low-level crime.
• Replace invisible and unaccountable Police Authorities, making the police properly accountable to a directly elected person who will set priorities for local policing.
• Publish detailed street-by-street crime statistics online every month, in an open and standardised format, so people know the real level of crime in their neighbourhood.
• Make it clear that anyone caught carrying a knife in a public place can expect to be prosecuted and sent to prison.