Rejected petition Repeal the Harassment Act

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I believe that we should repeal the Harassment Act.
This act was designed to protect vunerable people from the serious stalkers who are no doubt a terrifying issue for anyone who has such a problem.
However this act has been completely taken over by petty squabbles over facebook or text messages resulting in taking up huge amounts of police time.
It gets recorded as a crime (because crime recording standards state it must be) and huge amounts of police time is wasted on dealing with this stupid petty squabbling. This is clearly stupid and not what the act was designed for.
As stated above this is wasting huge amounts of police time and money dealing with things that police used to deal with by telling both parties to pack it in, but cannot because the harassment act and crime recording standards state it must be recorded as a "crime", and crimes "must be investigated fully".

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Date submitted 17 April 2014
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