{"id":70416,"date":"2020-03-30T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=70416"},"modified":"2020-03-30T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:44:02","slug":"police-to-ignore-some-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/police-to-ignore-some-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Police To \u201cIgnore\u201d Some Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A \u201cgraduated withdrawal of service plan\u201d shows that if things get to a certain undisclosed point, the Police force will only focus on critical 999 calls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will also drop investigations against individuals, depending on the crime and if sickness levels rise too much. Sources said that forces would begin to \u201cwithdraw from a wide range of activities,\u201d such as turning a blind eye to types of theft, affray and cannabis dealing.<\/p>\n<p>This procedure follows a colour coded \u201cplan\u201d of sorts, that outlines the specifics of when and why police services will be stopped from prosecuting certain individuals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70422\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70422\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/078F7CD8-E323-4A34-AF13-081657CADEC5-149x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/078F7CD8-E323-4A34-AF13-081657CADEC5-149x300.jpeg 149w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/078F7CD8-E323-4A34-AF13-081657CADEC5-508x1024.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/078F7CD8-E323-4A34-AF13-081657CADEC5-600x1209.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/078F7CD8-E323-4A34-AF13-081657CADEC5.jpeg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The colour coded plan.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A senior Police source said: \u201cIf you get to black, the force basically can\u2019t function. You will either have to call in the army or request aid from other police forces. It\u2019s edge-of-the-cliff stuff. I fear we will reach black in certain parts of this country, which is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is possible arrests won\u2019t be made. A suspect\u2019s journey through the custody suite involves 12 different people. If a police force is on its knees they won\u2019t be able to make those arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the scary possibility of a loss of order, many officials believe that as long as the infection rate slows and people do what the Government says, the forces won\u2019t even reach the Black stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cgraduated withdrawal of service plan\u201d shows that if things get to a certain undisclosed point, the Police force will only focus on critical 999 calls. They will also drop investigations against individuals, depending on the crime and if sickness levels rise too much. Sources said that forces would begin to \u201cwithdraw from a wide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1802,1811,1810,556,1727,71,113,1820,101,43],"class_list":["post-70416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-information","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-police-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70425,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70416\/revisions\/70425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}