Dundee Liberal Democrats back measures to tackle crime
February 13, 2007 7:06 AM
Dundee Liberal Democrats back measures to tackle crime
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Tuesday 13th February) gave their backing to Scottish LibDem calls to abolish the Scottish Prison Service and replace it with a new Scottish Custody and Rehabilitation Service.
The Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Nicol Stephen MSP said the current culture and structure of the prison service was failing to cut crime.
Announcing a new penal policy which envisages a 20 year modernisation programme for the prison estate, with more community-based solutions, and greater links between his proposed new prison and rehabilitation service and new Community Justice Authorities, Mr Stephen said, "Liberal Democrats in Scotland are determined to take action which has a real impact on cutting crime.
"We will radically change our prison service and for the first time give the new custody and rehabilitation service a community role."
Locally, here in Dundee, Liberal Democrat local party Convener Raymond Lawrie said, "These are an imaginative serious of penal policy reforms from the Scottish Liberal Democrats in our campaign to put in place measures that will cut crime."
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