Comprehensive law strengthening police powers, increasing criminal sentences, restricting protest rights, and reforming youth and sex offender management.
A Bill to make provision about the police and other emergency workers; to make provision about collaboration between authorities to prevent and reduce serious violence; to make provision about offensive weapons homicide reviews; to make provision for new offences and for the modification of existing offences; to make provision about the powers of the police and other authorities for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating or prosecuting crime or investigating other matters; to make provision about the maintenance of public order; to make provision about the removal, storage and disposal of vehicles; to make provision in connection with driving offences; to make provision about cautions; to make provision about bail and remand; to make provision about sentencing, detention, release, management and rehabilitation of offenders; to make provision about secure 16 to 19 Academies; to make provision for and in connection with procedures before courts and tribunals; and for connected purposes.
Status: Act of Parliament
Current House: Unassigned
Stage: Royal Assent
Sponsored by: Baroness Williams of Trafford, Dominic Raab
Introduced: 2021-03-09
Royal Assent: 2022-03-28