More agencies given parenting order powers
Summary
The Police and Justice Act came into force in November
2006. The objective of the Act is to help build safer communities: measures
drive forward both the police reform programme and the Respect Action Plan.
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Law-Making Explained
This is an Act of
Parliament (Elizabeth II - Chapter 48).
Find out more about
Acts.
How
does it affect me?
Measures in this Act include:
- the
establishment of a Police Improvement Agency
- standardising the powers
of Community Support Officers (CSOs)
- aligning the Basic Command Unit
and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership boundaries with local authorities.
The Act also aims to tackle anti-social behaviour by widening the
number of agencies that can apply for parenting orders, providing CSOs with the
power to return truants to school and giving Trading Standards Officers the
power to clamp down on licensed premises that sell alcohol to under-18s.
This Act amends the Computer Misuse Act, making 'denial of service attacks'
a criminal offence and increasing the maximum penalty for unauthorised access
to a computer.
