Early release puts public safety at risk without funding, say police and MI5 – report

Times newspaper cites letter from chiefs of police and security agencies to justice ministry, while joint article calls for serious investment' in law and order

Police chiefs and MI5 have called for the government to give them enough funding amid pressures from the latest plans to release prisoners early.

The heads of the Metropolitan police, MI5 and the National Crime Agency were among those who warned that plans to release prisoners early could be of net detriment to public safety" in a letter to the justice ministry, the Times reported.