A charity working to stop illegal evictions has urged the
Metropolitan police to give its officers better training after they failed to
arrest a landlord who allegedly forced his way into a family’s home with a
crowbar and tried to drag them down the stairs.
Roz Spencer of Safer Renting, an advice service for tenants backed by
four London boroughs, said people were being evicted illegally every week in
most British towns and cities, but the police nearly always failed to treat it
as a crime. “We would like the police to understand that it is a criminal
offence to kick someone out without a possession order,” she said. “Their job
is to intervene when a crime has taken place.” Read more on the Observer
website.
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