New Deterrent Reduces Crime In London
Received Tuesdav, i p.m. LONDON, Sept. 13. Tndictable crime in London has shown a most encouraging decrease in tlie past eight months. S'*otland Yard officers attribute the improvement to deereasing profits on the black market due to the removal of trade restrietions, to the increasing shortage of money which makes it diffieult for receivers to dispose of stoleu goods, to the dispersal of inany of the most dangerous criminal gangs and to the effects of the Criminal .Tustice Aet which make it possible for the Courts to impose sentences of preventive detention upon offenders over 30 years of age with more than three previous eonvictions. This new provision has made it possible to deal severelv with persistent offenders and in the view of police officers, is acting as a valuable deterrent.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 September 1949, Page 5
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