Crime and Security Act 2010

A Bill to make provision about police powers of stop and search; about the taking, retention, destruction and use of evidential material; for the protection of victims of domestic violence; about injunctions in respect of gang-related violence; about anti-social behaviour orders; about the private security industry; about possession of mobile telephones in prison; about air weapons; and for connected purposes.

This Bill contains a range of policing, crime and security measures.

Key areas

• reduces information requirements for police stops and searches
• establishes new time limits for the retention of DNA samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints (following a European Court of Human Rights judgement) together with extensions to the circumstances in which such samples can be collected
• 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