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19 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Chair of @PoliceChiefs, Martin Hewitt, gave evidence yesterday to a parliamentary cmte scrutinising the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

Mr Hewitt said, "...Our point fundamentally, as the NPCC group, is that the issue here is the lack of [site] provision". (1/4)
Thank you to @lizziedearden for this write-up on the National Police Chiefs Council view that new powers are not needed, but instead, we need increased provision of sites. (2/4)

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Our research has previously shown that the overwhelming majority of police responses to the Government’s 2018 consultation did not want more eviction powers. (3/4)

gypsy-traveller.org/news/police-ca…
Our research showed AGAIN that an overwhelming 93% of police bodies who submitted to the 2019 consultation and shared their response with FFT, called for better site provision for Gypsies and Travellers as a solution to unauthorised encampments. (4/END)

gypsy-traveller.org/news/police-re…

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21 May
WATCH📺👇: On Wednesday 19 May, @GallagherGRT, @mwillersqc of @gardencourtlaw, @bowers_jake and Philomena Mongan from @LondonGypsyTrav made oral submissions to the Human Rights Committee on the potential impact of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. (1/6)
.@bowers_jake on Gypsies and Travellers:

🔴Treated as 2nd-class citizens;
🔴Chased from pillar-to-post despite having nowhere to stop, thanks to 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act;
🔴Locked into a cycle of trespass, evictions, race hate and discrimination.

(2/6)
.@mwillersqc outlines:

🟠Local authority failures on their obligations;
🟠The Caravan Sites Act and the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order;
🟠The never-ending cycle of having nowhere to stop and being forced from pillar-to-post, "effectively on a road to nowhere".

(3/6)
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20 May
WATCH📺: On Tuesday, @mwillersqc of @gardencourtlaw outlined to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Committee the difficulty that will arise from the Bill's vague definitions and the potential no recourse to justice for Gypsies and Travellers. (1/5)
On the vague terms, @mwillersqc said, "...the problem with Part 4 [of the Bill] and the speculation as to whether or not definitions will become crystallised in litigation is that most Gypsies and Travellers will have left the site and will be unable to challenge... (2/5)
...the decision by a police officer to arrest them, given the scenario that would play out under Section 60c. A Gypsy or Traveller...parking on a piece of land with their family...is not going to hang around when threatened with seizure of their vehicle [read: home]... (3/5)
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19 May
🔴WATCH LIVE: Philomena Mongan from @LondonGypsyTrav, @GallagherGRT, @bowers_jake and @mwillersqc of @gardencourtlaw making oral submissions to the Human Rights Cmte on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

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.@GallagherGRT on the Bill's impact on the Rights of the Child, "this Bill is a dangerous presence to children's development"... arguing that Gypsy and Traveller children are going to face a lot more hate and discrimination, because it's bad enough for how it currently stands.
.@mwillersqc "Public authorities have a duty to take account of humanitarian considerations - there is existing public guidance for local authorities issued by the [SoS of @mhclg] that explains that welfare considerations need to be taken into account." (1/4)
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18 May
.@mwillersqc "what the [Gov] are effectively doing in Part 4 of the Bill is creating...'no-go' zones which the Court of Appeal has ruled would fundamentally breach [Human Rights legislation]"
Again, @mwillersqc, "A Gypsy or Traveller parking on land with their family is not going to hang around when threatened with seizure of their vehicle... &[if they tried to argue their case] they would probably not get Legal Aid to challenge...the Section and prosecution. (1/2)
(cont.) In those circumstances, we're probably unlikely to see much, if any, judicial consideration of the vague terms in Part 4." (2/END)
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2 Apr
For decades, the Government has failed to identify enough space for Travellers to live and now the Home Secretary is planning to jail, fine and remove the homes of innocent people for the ‘crime’ of having nowhere to go. (1/4)
Against this backdrop, the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities is handing out leaflets on “dealing with traveller incursions” to win votes at election time. The language is disgraceful, but the issue is so much more than language - it’s the whole approach. (2/4)
It is as cruel as it is illogical to campaign for roadside camps to be “dealt with” when the shortage of places to stop is so severe. We need transit pitches, permanent pitches and negotiated stopping in place - why do we never see that printed on any election leaflets? (3/4)
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2 Apr
This is beyond unacceptable and utterly shameful.

Gypsies and Travellers are human beings. You cannot use Gypsy and Traveller people as a political football with which to score votes.
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Politics is already rife with anti-Traveller racism and for a 'Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities' to be doing this is completely beyond the pale.

To then argue that it was a case of not knowing what 'incursions' means is utterly baffling. (2/8)

In fact, @APPGGTR Co-chair @MartinJDocherty just this week wrote about the use of language during #SP2021. See here: (3/8)

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