Drop in the number of girls arrested by South Wales Police
The number of girls arrested by South Wales Police has fallen by 44 per cent in the last three years, new figures have revealed.
Officers made 408 arrests of girls aged 17 and under during 2011 – a significant drop compared to 2008, when 723 arrests were recorded.
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A change in procedure is being attributed to the drop.
The statistics were published following a year-long inquiry on girls conducted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System.
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Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: “It is encouraging to see that South Wales Police are making fewer arrests of girls than they were in 2008, thanks in part to our effective campaigning.
He added: “Our evidence shows that the police were arresting girls completely unnecessarily when they were out partying, often with the mistaken intention of protecting them. Now the police are handing out flip-flops and helping the girls home, a much more sensible response.
Fourteen police services recorded a fall in arrests of more than 50 per cent. They were Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Lancashire, Northumbria, Suffolk, Thames Valley, Warwickshire, West Midlands and West Yorkshire.
Only one police service, City of London, recorded an increase.
Girls’ arrest figures for South Wales Police:
2008: 723
2009: 555
2010: 857
2011: 408
2 Comments
by illegalalien
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 5:57PM
“I suspect that this drop in arrests is not due to young women behaving themselves more and committing less crime but because more of them are being let off by the police as a way of showing more tolerance to so called vulnerable young girls and by irresponsible lobbying by women support groups who feel that young women should not be arrested for breaking the law simply because they are women and as such are somehow beyond punishment from the criminal justice service because it is somehow felt to be inappropriate.”
by Jiffy
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 12:20PM
“Arrested for going to a party and getting a bit merry ?
Are we signing up police from Iran?
Does this mean that hundreds of girls now have their DNA & fingerprints kept in the police database? Will some of them find it difficult or impossible to get jobs, because some moronic policeman thought he was protecting them? This coming after a number of cases where drunken girls have been left to wander the streets by the police and have ended up being assaulted and even murdered.”