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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Ministers plan to allow naming and shaming of offenders completing community sentences

Graffiti removal specialist cleans off paint
The move is being pushed through by the government ‘to build confidence’ in community sentences. Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian

Ministers are pushing through powers to photograph, name and shame offenders who have been ordered to complete unpaid community work in England and Wales.

The sentencing bill, now moving through parliament, will for the first time give probation officers “a legal power” to take and publish the names and pictures of individuals ordered by courts to tidy grass verges, litter-pick or scrub graffiti.

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