Law and order campaigners reacted with fury after it emerged that violent criminals could be handed on-the-spot fines of up to £100 rather than taken to court.
Plans drawn up by the Home Office propose an extension of fixed penalty notices from 2007 in a bid to ease pressure on the legal system.
The fines would be handed out for offences including assault, threatening behaviour, theft up to the value of £100, obstructing or assaulting a police officer, possession of cannabis and drunkenness.
I'm against instant fines just on the basis that it makes the police judge and jury.
vie Steel
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