Crowded prisons ‘could leave dangerous suspects on streets’, warns Met police chief
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Sir Mark Rowley’s warning follows a row last month over a letter in which the National Police Chiefs’ Council asked forces to consider pausing ‘non-priority’ arrests to avoid putting further pressure on prison capacity