We will reverse Labour's "skewed priorities"

Dominic Grieve has accused Labour of having “lost sight of whose side they’re on” when it comes to crime.

The Shadow Home Chancellor promised to eradicate the ‘walk-on-by’ culture created by Labour and free police officers to do their duty.

And he unveiled a series of measures to reverse Labour's “skewed priorities”:

• Amending police guidelines so officers back those who use reasonable force to try to prevent a crime or apprehend a suspect
• Changing the Code for Crown Prosecutors so it’s clear that it is not in the ‘public interest’ to prosecute those who perform a citizen’s arrest in good faith
• Amending the Health and Safety at Work Act, as it applies to the police, so that it does not inhibit or prevent officers from discharging their overriding duty to protect the public

Dominic stressed, “We’ll back the police and the public so together we can start to mend what is broken in our society.”

Our crime policies form part of our plan for social reform.