{"id":282,"date":"2006-03-14T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-14T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T06:38:23","slug":"good-result-from-efforts-by-court-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Good result from efforts by court officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than <strong>one thousand warrants<\/strong> have been executed, criminals arrested and <strong>\u00a360,000<\/strong> in unpaid fines collected following a major effort by courts staff across London to pursue elusive offenders. <\/p>\n<p>The money collected means many <strong>victims<\/strong> of crime in the capital will be <strong>compensated<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s 36 magistrates&#8217; courts began their crackdown last month on thousands of outstanding warrants. A quarter of all unpaid court fines in England and Wales originate from London. Courts chased fines evaders, some of whom had failed to attend court or complete their community service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A court penalty often includes an order to compensate victims. <\/p>\n<p><\/strong>The courts flushed out hundreds of criminals by letter, phone call and text, warning them to pay up or suffer the consequences including being sent to jail. <strong>One person was jailed for 182 days<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Much of the campaign&#8217;s success depended on the element of surprise, and enforcement officers turned up at criminals&#8217; homes at odd times of the day and night when they failed to respond to letters and <strong>text messages<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one thousand warrants have been executed, criminals arrested and \u00a360,000 in unpaid fines collected following a major effort by courts staff across London to pursue elusive offenders. The money collected means many victims of crime in the capital will be compensated. London&#8217;s 36 magistrates&#8217; courts began their crackdown last month on thousands of [&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-282","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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}