Crime and Security Bill 2009-10

Type of Bill:
Government Bill
Sponsor:
Alan Johnson
Home Office

Progress of the Bill

Bill started in the House of Commons

  1. House of Commons
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  2. House of Lords
    1. 1st reading
    2. 2nd reading
    3. Committee stage
    4. Report stage
    5. 3rd reading
  3. Consideration of Amendments
  4. Royal Assent

Last events

Next event

  • Committee stage: House of Commons Committee stage: House of Commons | 09.02.2010

All previous stages of the Bill

Latest news on the Bill

The Crime and Security Bill was presented to Parliament on 19 November 2009 This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.

This Bill had a Second Reading debate on 18 January 2010. The Bill has now been referred to a Public Bill Committee on 26 & 28 January and 2, 4, 9 & 23 February 2010.

Summary of the Bill

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

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