The purpose of the Bill is to:
- The Bill would protect communities by making parents take responsibility for their child’s antisocial behaviour. The Bill would also introduce new powers to help victims break the cycle of domestic violence.
The main benefits of the Bill would be:
- Making our streets safer.
- Preventing crimes against the vulnerable.
- Shutting down criminal and exploitative markets.
- Getting justice for victims and their families.
The main elements of the Bill are:
- Making families take responsibility for children’s anti-social behaviour by introducing a mandatory assessment of parenting needs whenever a 10 to 15-year-old is being considered for an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order), and imposing parenting orders where the young person has breached their ASBO.
- Enabling police to spend more time tackling crime in our communities by reducing the amount of information being recorded on lengthy stop and search forms.
- Tackling domestic violence with ‘Go orders’ to allow police to bar a suspected perpetrator from their homes for a fixed period of time even if they are not charged, empowering victims to feel safe in their own homes rather than seeking refuge elsewhere.
- Preventing tragic accidents involving airguns by ensuring these dangerous weapons are safely stored and out of the reach of children, by introducing a legal requirement to do so.
- Introducing an additional criminal offence under the Prison Act 1952 for the possession of a mobile phone device (component part, or article designed or adapted for use with a mobile phone device), within a prison without authorisation.
- Introducing a compulsory licensing scheme for all wheel clamping businesses, limiting the size of penalties imposed, regulating towing practices and putting in place an effective and fair appeals process.
- Ensuring the right people are on our DNA database by indefinitely retaining the DNA records of convicted offenders and holding the DNA of adults who are arrested, but not charged, for six years.
- Protecting the public by allowing police to take DNA samples and fingerprints at any time post conviction for a serious crime, and to take them from serious violent and sexual offenders returning to the UK following conviction overseas.
