Exclusive: Figure includes 500 homeless people detained since government pledged to replace Georgian-era legislation in 2022Almost 2,500 homeless people have been arrested by police in England and Wales since 2019 under the Georgian-era Vagrancy Act, among them nearly 500 people since the government pledged to replace the act in 2022.Freedom of information requests to police forces by the Liberal Democrats showed a total of 2,412 arrests since 2019 under the 1824 law, originally introduced to target homeless and wounded veterans of the Napoleonic wars. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/07/homeless-people-arrested-vagrancy-act-england-wales-police
Author : Peter Walker Deputy political editor
Publish date : 2024-04-07 14:02:23
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