MPs complete final stages of Crime and Security Bill
9 March 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
MPs completed the remaining stages of the Crime and Security Bill which now moves to the House of Lords
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- Bills before Parliament: Crime and Security Bill
- About Parliament: Passage of a Bill
- Topical issues: Crime
The main matters under discussion during the report stage was the future status of the Government's DNA database and alcohol disorder zones.
Key areas
This Bill contains a range of policing, crime and security measures. The key areas are:
- establishes new time limits for keeping DNA samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints together with changes to the circumstances in which such samples can be collected
- reduces information requirements for police stops and searches
- introduces a new Domestic Violence Protection Notice, by which a senior police officer could require a suspected perpetrator to stop molesting a victim and to leave the premises, pending application to court for the Bill’s new Domestic Violence Protection Order
- extends the new injunctions to prevent gang-related violence to under-18s
- strengthens the legal assumption that a court will make a parenting order when 10-15 year olds are convicted for a breach of an anti-social behaviour order
- establishes a new licensing requirement for businesses carrying out vehicle immobilisation, in addition to the existing one for individuals
- introduces a new criminal offence of possessing a mobile telephone in prison
- introduces a new offence of allowing minors access to air weapons