UK POLITICS

Home Secretary-I want criminals to feel TERROR

3 August, 2019
David Clews

The new home secretary, Priti Patel, has said she wants criminals to “literally feel terror” at the thought of breaking the law proudly declaring that “The Conservative Party is the party of law and order.”

Patel told the Daily Mail she wants to “empower” the police – and hopes more officers on the streets will make criminals fearful. in her first major interview.
Ms Patel was appointed home secretary in July, when Boris Johnson became prime minister and overhauled the cabinet.
Her interview comes after she and Mr Johnson announced last week the recruitment of 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales to replace the similar number lost when Theresa May was Home Secretary and then PM
Patel told the Mail:
 “I’ve always felt the Conservative Party is the party of the police and police officers.  Quite frankly, with more police officers out there and greater police presence, I want [criminals] to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offences.
My focus now is restating our commitment to law and order and restating our commitment to the people on the front line, the police.
The key thing is that we empower them to stop criminality.”
Back in 2011 she spoke about the death penalty on the BBC’s Question Time, where she said: 
 
“I do actually think when we have a criminal justice system that continuously fails in this country and where we have seen murderers, rapists and people who have committed the most abhorrent crimes in society, go into prison and then are released from prison to go out into the community to then re-offend and do the types of crime they have committed again and again. 
I think that’s appalling. And actually on that basis alone I would actually support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent.”

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