§ Baroness Blatchasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many arrests for breaching community service and probation orders remain outstanding; and how many warrants have been withdrawn for criminals who have avoided arrest for more than one year. [HL1442]
§ The Lord ChancellorLead responsibility for execution of community penalty breach warrants was transferred from the police to Magistrates' Courts Committees on 1 April 2001. Prior to the transfer, statistics on numbers of outstanding warrants or withdrawn warrants were not routinely kept. LCD is now collecting data but complete figures are not yet available. Based on information available at 28 November, 8,757 community penalty breach warrants were issued between 1 April 2001 and 31 August 2001. Of these, 4,612 were outstanding (not executed or withdrawn) on 28 September 2001.