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Two thirds of failure to appear warrants are for burglary and theft
Anonanon
Cheers Penelope for your words of wisdom. As soon as I saw she was director of Transform Justice it all fell into place.
Bail to court is a serious undertaking. Treating it as a pencilled in date in a diary is not the way it works.They are issued with the date and time at point of charge and bail. Any further appearance and they are also issued with a further bail/time date.
Sadly there aren't enough police to chase up the fail to answers. They nearly always turn up at some point...further arrest/stop check....and they can sit in custody in a police cell and focus on memory issues.
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Anonanon
Cheers Penelope for your words of wisdom. As soon as I saw she was director of Transform Justice it all fell into place.
Bail to court is a serious undertaking. Treating it as a pencilled in date in a diary is not the way it works.They are issued with the date and time at point of charge and bail. Any further appearance and they are also issued with a further bail/time date.
Sadly there aren't enough police to chase up the fail to answers. They nearly always turn up at some point...further arrest/stop check....and they can sit in custody in a police cell and focus on memory issues.
