Thank you for the question.
One of the frustrations that police officers have expressed in my time with the Association of Chiefs of Police, as have many other colleagues we work with, is that quite often the charges that are proposed, such as for failing to appear or for many breaches are either dealt away or stayed. It's very frustrating, because those are the very charges that are used to support holding and detaining a client in custody. It becomes that much more difficult to be able to proceed if you can't use some of the very grounds that we would use when all the other tools have been reduced and/or taken away. That's just another tool that's been made less effective, which means that offenders will not have that on their criminal records when judges or JPs look at those for consideration and bail. It exacerbates the problem of what we would consider the repeat offenders being released and rearrested.