伦敦警察厅厅长警告称，英国的司法系统正面临巨大压力。他表示，在自己40年的从警生涯中，从未见过刑事司法系统承受如此巨大的压力。
Court system under massive strain, warns Met chief The head of the Metropolitan Police has said that in 40 years of policing he has never seen so much strain on the criminal justice system.
马克·罗利爵士指出，这种压力主要是由于多年来资金短缺以及新冠疫情期间案件积压所致。在接受BBC Radio 4《PM》节目采访时，他表示：“在伦敦，目前有近500起案件被列为2030年的审判对象。”作为回应，政府表示已采取措施“将更多严重罪犯关押在监狱中”，并正在建设更多的监狱设施。英国皇家检察署（CPS）表示，检察官将在押候审判期间获得更多支持，并接受额外培训。
Sir Mark Rowley said this "massive strain" was due to years of funding pressures and backlogs that built up during the Covid pandemic. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme Sir Mark said: "In London we've got nearly 500 cases listed for trial in 2030." In response, the government said it had taken action "to keep more of the most serious criminals locked up" and more prison spaces were being built. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said its prosecutors were set to receive more support working in remand courts plus extra training.
马克·罗利爵士指出，案件积压导致一些受害者（尤其是那些遭受跟踪、骚扰、家庭暴力或强奸的受害者）不得不等待多年才能获得正义。他说，这种拖延对受害者来说“极其艰难”。
Sir Mark said the growing backlog meant some victims, particularly those involved in cases of stalking, harassment, domestic abuse and rape, were left waiting years for justice. He said the delays were "incredibly difficult for victims".
伦敦警察厅厅长还补充说，目前有36名被指控犯有枪支相关罪行的嫌疑人在等待审判期间被保释。他表示：“被指控犯有枪支相关罪行的人被保释而不是被关押在押候审判，这种情况除非在极其特殊的情况下，否则绝不会发生。”
Thirty-six people charged with firearms offences in London were currently on bail in the community while awaiting trial, the Met commissioner added. "The idea of someone charged with firearms offences being on bail rather than on remand... would never happen except in maybe the most bizarre, exceptional case," he said.
英国皇家检察署的公共起诉事务主管斯蒂芬·帕金森表示，负责处理押候审判案件的检察官将获得更多支持，同时还会接受额外培训，并加强对保释决定、押候听证会及风险管理的监管。这些改革措施将重点针对那些有再犯倾向或对受害者构成严重威胁的犯罪嫌疑人；此外，英国皇家检察署也在与警方合作，以改善信息共享机制，以便更准确地做出保释决定。
"That's becoming too frequent and those risks are then walking around communities." Director of public prosecutions at the CPS, Stephen Parkinson, said prosecutors in busy remand courts would receive more support, alongside extra training and stronger checks on bail, remand hearings and risk management. He said the changes would focus on cases involving repeat offending and serious risks to victims, while the CPS was also working with police to improve information sharing for bail decisions.
马克·罗利爵士还提到，尽管伦敦警察厅的警力有所减少，但每月被起诉的嫌疑人数量却从两年前的约4000人增加到了7500人。
Offenders in communities Sir Mark said the number of defendants being charged by the Met had risen from about 4,000 a month two years ago to 7,500 a month, despite the force becoming smaller.
他还警告称，监狱过度拥挤以及政府推行的提前释放政策给警务工作带来了额外的压力。
He also warned that prison overcrowding and the government's early release scheme were creating additional pressures for policing.
谈到即将实施的进一步释放措施时，他表示：“明天又将有一批囚犯根据提前释放计划被释放。”此前，该月已有700名囚犯被提前释放。
Referring to further releases due to take place, he said: "Tomorrow we've got more prisoners being released under the early release scheme", after "700 earlier on in the month".
马克爵士指出，部长们接手时监狱已经面临严重的容量危机，他们“不得不采取一些紧急措施”，因为“别无选择”。
Sir Mark said ministers had inherited a prison capacity crisis and "had to pull some urgent levers" because "they didn't have any choice".
虽然他强调自己并不批评这一决定，但他指出这一政策带来的后果正在影响一线警务工作——警察现在不得不在社区中管理那些原本应该继续留在监狱里的罪犯。
While stressing he was not criticising the decision, he said the consequences were being felt on the front line, with officers increasingly required to manage offenders in the community who would previously have remained behind bars.
他说：“如果社区中出现了这些罪犯，而警察却必须承担相应的管理风险，那确实是一个严重的问题。”
"There is a significant issue if you've got offenders in communities who police are trying to manage the risk of when historically they wouldn't have been there, they'd have been in prison," he said.
他补充道：“要解决当前这个困境，需要付出巨大的努力、采取果断的行动，并发挥创造力。”
He added: "It's going to take real vigour and pace and imagination to fix a system which is now in this position."
司法部的一位发言人表示：“首相和司法部长上任后不久就采取了措施，以确保最严重的罪犯继续被关押在监狱里。但我们坦诚地承认监狱面临的危机非常严重；如果我们不采取行动，警察将不得不停止逮捕，这会给社区带来无法估量的风险。”该发言人还表示，政府正在建设新的监狱设施、增加对受害者的支持力度，并赋予缓刑官员更大的权力，以便对获释罪犯实施严格的监管。
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: "Within weeks of coming into office, the prime minister and justice secretary took action to keep more of the most serious criminals locked up. "But we have been honest about the scale of the crisis we inherited in our prisons. If we had failed to act, the police would have been forced to halt arrests, putting communities at untold risk." The spokesperson said ministers were building new prison spaces, increasing victim support funding and giving probation greater powers to impose strict restrictions on released offenders.
在谈到过去十年间公众对当地警务工作的信心以及受害者满意度下降的问题时，马克爵士承认“这部分责任确实在于我们”，但他认为这种下降反映了西方许多国家普遍存在的对公共机构信任度下降的趋势。
When addressing figures showing confidence in local policing and victim satisfaction had fallen over the past decade, Sir Mark acknowledged that "some of it is definitely on us", but argued the decline reflected a broader fall in trust in public institutions across many Western countries.
他表示，近年来人们对伦敦警察局的信任度有所提高：在伦敦的受害者中，满意度上升了约4%至5%；同时，超过80%的伦敦居民表示对当地警方的执法工作感到“非常满意”、“满意”或“还算满意”。
He said confidence in the Met had improved in recent years, with satisfaction among victims in London rising by about 4% to 5%, while more than 80% of Londoners reported excellent, good or fair confidence in the policing of their local area.
他说：“我最大的忠诚对象是受害者以及他们所在的社区。我们亲眼目睹了犯罪行为给他们带来的伤害，也看到了犯罪行为对他们生活的影响。因此，我们更加致力于确保不仅我们自己，整个执法系统都能尽一切可能为他们提供支持和帮助。”
He said: "My biggest loyalty... is to victims and communities. We are seeing the trauma, we are seeing the offending, we are seeing the effect of crime on them. "That makes us really focused on trying to make sure, not just ourselves, but the whole system does everything it can do in support of them."
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