Criminal justice reform set to reduce admin and bureaucracy

Home Affairs Minister Juan Watterson has said he is fully committed to making the Island’s criminal justice system better, faster, simpler and more cost efficient.

He says in recent years it’s become bogged down in admin and bureaucracy and needed desperate reform.

It’s a five year modernising process which will see administration streamlined and a reduction in the number of low-level offences appearing before the courts.

The Minister gave us an example of where the current system is failing:

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