The Government has unveiled their promised law and order crackdown.

Section 27 reports and Labour's prison reduction targets have been thrown on the scrap heap, and sentencing discounts have been capped at 40 percent.

ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper approves of taxpayer-funded 'cultural reports' being brought down.

"Doing away with the reports doesn't stop friends and family writing to the court or turning up at the courts- they can still do that. The offender can still have some sort of representation."

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