.patel4witham: demands crackdown on criminals assaulting police officers as new figures show average jail term is just two months
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph following the "brutal and mindless" killing of PC Andrew Harper, Priti Patel said courts needed to ensure that the law was acting as a sufficient deterrent against attacks on officers.
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