Clause 5
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
9:15 am
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
The whole purpose of serious crime prevention orders is to prevent crime happening in the future. If somebody is facilitating crime and refuses to co-operate with law enforcement when it is brought to their attention that their premises are being used for trafficking—even if that is 100 miles away in lodging houses—and that person shrugs their shoulders, it may be appropriate for the law enforcement to go to the applicant authority to take that person to the High Court and make them the subject of a serious crime prevention order, in order to stop that criminality.