{"id":1673,"date":"2010-08-10T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:34:08","slug":"some-on-the-spot-fines-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"Some on-the-spot fines to end"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-1674\" style=\"width:384px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Drunkeness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Drunkeness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Drunkeness<\/div>\r\n<\/div>On-the-spot fines for being drunk and disorderly, shoplifting, disorder and threatening and abusive behaviour are to be discontinued because they are not working.<\/p>\n<p>In a pilot scheme in parts of London police officers will use court action or &#8220;words of advice&#8221; instead of fines.<\/p>\n<p>Some 45,616 fixed penalty notices were issued in England and Wales but 24,713 were not paid.  This is seen as wasting police time and not acting as a punishment or deterrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drunkeness On-the-spot fines for being drunk and disorderly, shoplifting, disorder and threatening and abusive behaviour are to be discontinued because they are not working. In a pilot scheme in parts of London police officers will use court action or &#8220;words of advice&#8221; instead of fines. Some 45,616 fixed penalty notices were issued in England and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}