Home Secretary Priti Patel: I want would-be criminals to feel terror
will replaceMs Patel told the Mail:"I've always felt the Conservative Party is the party of the police and police officers.
"Quite frankly, with more police officers out there and greater police presence, I want [criminals] to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offences."Mr Johnson and Ms Patel met police in Birmingham when they announced details of the recruitment plan She added:"My focus now is restating our commitment to law and order and restating our commitment to the people on the front line, the police.Asked about her views on capital punishment - after she previously made comments in support of it - Ms Patel said:"I have never said I'm an active supporter of it and is constantly taken out of context."
In 2011, Ms Patel spoke about the death penalty on the BBC's Question Time, where she said:"I do actually think when we have a criminal justice system that continuously fails in this country and where we have seen murderers, rapists and people who have committed the most abhorrent crimes in society, go into prison and then are released from prison to go out into the community to then re-offend and do the types of crime they have committed again and again.
"I think that's appalling. And actually on that basis alone I would actually support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent."
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