Persistent offenders will always find a place and a time to rob and assault.
The environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth argued fines should be retained for some persistent offenders.
The pact prohibits budget deficits greater than 3% of GDP and threatens persistent offenders with punitive fines.
According to the Sun, persistent offenders with up to 20 previous convictions are being let off with cautions.
Motorists caught speeding are sent a warning letter and persistent offenders are visited by a local neighbourhood policing team.
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Dru Sharpling, of the HMIC, said out-of-court disposals were a "useful tool" for new offenders, but not persistent offenders.
The memory stick also contained details of about 10, 000 persistent offenders, and 33, 000 records from the police national computer.
Officers want callers to give details of persistent offenders as part of a summer drink and drug driving campaign, which runs until 30 June.
John Burbeck, spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the operation would "target persistent offenders, reinforce the administration of justice and collect money owed to the courts and compensation owed to victims".
We halved the time to bring persistent juvenile offenders to justice.
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But if the public is not to take the law into its own hands, it has to be reassured that children are safe from persistent predatory offenders.
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Summary justice through on-the-spot fines, seizure of drug dealers' assets, closure of pubs, clubs and houses that are the centre of drug use or disorder, naming and shaming of persistent ASB offenders, interim ASBO's, will be rolled out.
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But no one, not even the police, believes that any sentencing policy, however draconian, can ensure that it will be impossible for persistent sex offenders ever to have the opportunity to prey on the young and the vulnerable.
ECONOMIST: Are there better ways of dealing with sex offenders?
This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.
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