Court system ‘creaks’, says former chief constable

8:00pm Thursday 20th September 2012 in News

“FRUSTRATING” Sir Paul Stephenson “FRUSTRATING” Sir Paul Stephenson

BACUP-born former Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has described the court system as ‘slow, bureaucratic and hugely frustrating’.

The former Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School pupil, who was Lancashire’s Chief Constable from 2002 to 2005, spent a day at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, in central London, to see how it was working.

Afterwards, he told the Sunday Telegraph: “Despite improvements, the system is still chaotic on occasions and still bureaucratic. It creaks.”

Sir Paul reisgned as Britain’s top cop last July amid the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

He then took up a crisis management advisory role for Keyhaven, part of communications group King Worldwide.

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Marsdogs says...
8:47pm Thu 20 Sep 12

I'm surprised he had to spend a day in court in order to reach this conclusion.

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prince of darkness says...
10:12pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Time to move with the times have evening & night courts like USA. Clear all the backlogs, then justice is quicker takes months or years to get a Court date. They did it for the riots so its not a new idea.

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Common_Sense1 says...
10:26pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Nice to know he has a cushy well paid job on top of his pension. You'd think after over 30 years in the job he'd know exactly how slow the courts were without having to spend a day there!

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goz says...
11:14pm Thu 20 Sep 12

i thought he was describing the police service!!!

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happycyclist says...
8:47am Fri 21 Sep 12

His comments would have carried more clout if he'd said them whilst he was serving Met Commissioner.

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darwenTower says...
9:47am Fri 21 Sep 12

happycyclist wrote:
His comments would have carried more clout if he'd said them whilst he was serving Met Commissioner.
Yeah, but it's best to rock the boat from dry land.

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makaveli96 says...
10:59am Fri 21 Sep 12

Couldnt agree more Mr Stephenson!

Lets get back to basics!

1) Court case
2) Not Guilty = release
3) Guilty = removal

No need for prisons, fast justice and lower costs!

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