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Introduce mandatory prison sentences for persons who assault emergency services

Submitted on Thursday 8th September 2016

Rejected on Friday 9th September 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Introduce mandatory prison sentences for persons who assault emergency services

Petition Details

As the number of assaults against emergency workers increases more and more perpetrators are being dealt with by way of a community pay back order or worse they have the charge dropped as part of a plea deal.
It is time that our emergency services had adequate protection from the justice system.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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