Hugh Rowland comments in the East Anglian Daily Times on 22 November on the policy of dealing with offences by community resolution and other out of court disposals rather than by court action.
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/court_spared_criminals_double_in_a_year_1_1132952
Maureen Bateman, a senior retired magistrate of 26 years service, writes to the EADT: "Every citizen should be grateful to Hugh Rowland for challenging the way that Suffolk Police (and many other forces) tackle what they categorise as low level crime. As he says, this is cost driven."