Police in urgent bail case review

Police are urgently reviewing the cases of thousands of suspects after a court ruling restricted their powers to hold or bail them for further questioning.

The ruling - in a case involving Greater Manchester Police - means that suspects can be released on police bail for no more than 96 hours (four days).

At present, suspects can be released on bail pending further inquires for weeks, or even months, in some cases.

Home Secretary Theresa May said it was a matter of "great concern".

Mrs May said the Home Office was considering whether to appeal against the ruling or introduce emergency legislation.

The fresh guidance to police custody officers followed a ruling by Mr Justice McCombe in the High Court.

The guidance says officers will have to re-arrest suspects in order to detain or question them again, but that this will require them to have "new evidence".

I think the courts have got this right TBH. I'll have to have a dig in my books for the research, but it's been shown before that the longer the Police have to investigate a case, the longer they will take. I'm not suggesting they're necessarily lazy, but the evidence is there to show that shorter timescales lead to speedier investigations and charges being brought.

If the Police don't have enough to charge someone, then I don't see why anyone should have any restrictions placed upon them, until such time that the Police can bring charges.

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Emoergency? Is that when depressive teenagers run out of things to be miserable about?