Clause 101 - Powers of arrest
Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill
2:30 pm
Ms Hazel Blears (Minister of State (Crime Reduction, Policing & Community Safety), Home Office; Salford, Labour)
I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Marion.
Before lunch, I explained that we are moving from a framework in which the seriousness of the offence is the defining character to one that involves the test of necessity. That is the fundamental point.