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He was also arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit a burglary other than dwelling with intent to steal.Police said a 20-year-old woman was also arrested in Barlestone on suspicion of assisting an offender and later released on police bail.Police renewed their appeal for information following the arrests.A spokesperson for the force said: "We're keen to speak to anyone who saw either the blue Toyota Hilux or blue BMW in the area at the time and would particularly like to speak to anyone who captured them on a dashcam."
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Coroner issues warning over unregulated e-bike batteries after man's death in house fire
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‘Chaotic' early release schemes put public at risk, say prison staff
Eight in ten prison and probation staff disapprove of the government's decision to release inmates early according to a mass survey exposing chaotic management of the prison estate that allegedly 'puts the public at risk of serious harm'. Timetables for implementing early releases were rushed, leading to multiple errors and a lack of oversight of who was being freed early, the report of the survey's findings, which was shared with The Times, said. Probation staff said that criminals released from jail were often not tagged or monitored and they described the management of early release schemes as 'a shambles'. One prison worker said they had overseen three prisoners who had each been recalled within days of release. 'They just viewed it as a fun 'bonus' of being out for a few weeks and unlawfully at large,' the prison officer said. 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Numerous staff members are having to take stress-related sick leave, and I feel the organisation as a whole will collapse should this continue.' Tom Wheatley, president of the Prison Governor's Association, called on the government to invest more in prison and probation services to improve the quality of staff and boost retention rates. He said: 'Successive governments have failed to invest in probation in the same way that they have failed to invest in prisons. We need to avoid the kind of 'emergency' measures we have seen recently. 'Recruitment and retention policies need to offer pay and conditions of service for all HMPPS [His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service] staff that will not only attract high quality recruits but will also encourage them to stay to gain experience, then build on that to become the highly skilled people needed for prisons and probation to be successful.' Ian Lawrence, general secretary of Napo, said: 'Decades of underinvestment in prisons meant that once breaking point came, the burden fell disproportionately on the shoulders of probation services. Already overstretched, it was down to hardworking and dedicated prison and probation staff to respond to the challenge of automatic early release, without proper operational support. 'We cannot keep expecting probation officers to pick up the pieces. Probation services are transformational to people's lives and central to a functioning criminal justice system. 'We therefore need to ensure the long-term sustainability of the workforce by ensuring people are properly rewarded and supported to do their jobs.' A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: 'This government inherited prisons days from collapse and had no choice but to take decisive action to stop jails overflowing — an event that would have been cataclysmic for frontline staff. 'To ensure we never run out of prison places again, we are building 14,000 prison places and reforming sentencing so our jails reduce re-offending, cut crime, and keep victims safe.'
