FAIR RULES FOR ALL

Policing, crime and private security bill

Backing communities in setting fair rules to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour through increasing protection against a range of threats, including violence, anti-social behaviour and financial exploitation by:

• further cutting police officer red tape by reducing the reporting requirements on stop and search forms (whilst retaining important ethnicity monitoring oversight) so that police officers can spend more time tackling the crime and less time completing forms;
• retrospectively adding to DNA database those convicted of serious violent or sexual offences before the 2004 change in the law which made it routine procedure to collect the DNA of offenders. Many of those offenders who were arrested before 2004 will now be back in the community. This new power, which is currently being consulted upon, would enable the police to take their DNA and continue to be able to tackle so-called 'cold' cases ;
• providing the police with powers to compel sexual and violent offenders who have been convicted and imprisoned abroad to provide a DNA sample on their return to the UK;
• protecting women from violence through considering any recommendations for legislation from the response to the Violence Against Women and Girls consultation to be published in the Autumn ;
• providing greater support to struggling parents who cannot cope with a child's anti-social behaviour through ensuring that a parenting assessment is carried out on every child aged 10 to 15 who is considered for an ASBO and, for the same age group, will make a Parenting Order automatic upon breach of a child's ASBO;
• introducing a compulsory licensing requirement for private wheel clamping businesses. The ongoing consultation proposes bringing clamping businesses under the regulation of the Security Industry Authority, which already vets and licences individuals, to ensure that known criminals are prevented from abusing positions of trust ;  
• This bill extends to England and Wales, with some provisions also applying to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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