The recent comments by Sir Mark Rowley about the Crown Prosecution Service have sparked a row between the CPS and the Met, but beneath the name calling there is a fundamental problem with our justice system which needs to be resolved.

Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, has today (22/5) written to the Attorney General requesting that the Court of Appeal look again at the sentencing of an attacker who stabbed a 15 year old boy in High Wycombe.

New statistics show Thames Valley Police received nearly one million contacts from the public, attended 170,000 incidents, and made 31,000 arrests, in a single year – with officers driving more than 13 million miles in the process.

The visit focused on work to support victims across the criminal justice process from investigations, outcomes and support services with attendance from Thames Valley’s Police’s Rape and Sexual Offences Team and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Victims First Service.

Matthew Barber has welcomed over £2.8m of Home Office funding to support the delivery of two projects which aim to reduce domestic abuse and stalking.

Thames Valley Police is releasing the latest results of Project Vigilant, an initiative that targets those displaying predatory behaviour in the night-time economy.

The initiative uses a combination of uniformed and plain clothed officers to carry out patrols in public areas outside nightclubs, bars and pubs, to identify people who may be displaying signs of predatory behaviour, such as sexual harassment, inappropriate touching and loitering.