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To increase custodial sentence for assault on emergency service workers

Submitted on Thursday 21st January 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 24th February 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

To increase custodial sentence for assault on emergency service workers

Petition Details

The government to change law that the minimum for attacking emergency worker should be two years and maximum five

Additional Information

The law is lax and not coinciding with seriousness of assault on our nurses doctors paramedics and police offices and firemen our brave workers are facing day in and day out either physical and or verbal assault which is unacceptable and needs to be dealt with via strong legislation custodial sentencing


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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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Minimum 2 year prison sentence for attacks on emergency workers
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550320

Introduce minimum sentences for attacks on emergency workers.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549032

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