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Bills Presented: Crime and Security Bill (19 Nov 2009)

..., supported by the Prime Minister, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary David Miliband, Mr. Secretary Straw and Mr. David Hanson, presented 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;...

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (21 Oct 2009)

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people aged (a) under 10, (b) 10 to 15 and (c) 16 to 17 years old have been subject to police stop and search procedures in each police force area in each of the last five years; (2) how many people aged (a) over 80, (b) 71 to 80 and (c) 60 to 70 years old have been subject to police stop and search procedures in each...

Policing and Crime Bill: Committee (5th Day) (Continued) (20 Oct 2009) See 3 other results from this debate

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: ...the amendment. Amendment 153 withdrawn. Amendments 154 to 156 not moved. Amendment 157 Moved by Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer 157: After Clause 108, insert the following new Clause— "Stop and search areas (1) Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) is amended as follows. (2) After subsection (5A) insert— "(5B) Following the notification and confirmation of an...

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Advertising (20 Oct 2009)

Phil Woolas: ... Drugs (including FRANK campaign) 3,467,021 Immigration 790,860 Knife Amnesty 137,083 PCSO Recruitment 1,748,743 Rape 280,022 Single Non-Emergency Number 780,325 Stop and Search 134,501 Identity and Passport Service (IPS) Communications(1) 105,950 2007-08 Alcohol Harm Reduction 2,900,411 Community Safety 866,889 Drugs...

Written Answers — Home Department: Offensive Weapons: Crime (15 Oct 2009)

Alan Campbell: ...years. We have also made it clear that anyone aged 16 or over should be prosecuted at their first offence. In addition, in phase 1 of the programme we have funded TKAP-police forces increased use of stop and search powers (under section 1 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) to recover weapons, we have increased...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Government Initiatives: Advertising (5 Oct 2009)

Lord West of Spithead: ...163;76,000 2006-07 Acquisitive Crime Reduction Alcohol Binge drinking Alcohol Misuse Enforcement Campaign Child Protection on the Internet Domestic Violence Drugs (Including FRANK campaign) Immigration Knife Amnesty PCSO Recruitment Rape Single Non-Emergency Number Stop and Search Identity & Passport Service (IPS) Communications* £3,266,192 ...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report: 10 Years On (21 Jul 2009)

Lord West of Spithead: ...the anniversary. This work includes: increasing the recruitment, retention and progression of minority ethnic police officers and police staff; reducing unjustified disproportionality in the use of stop and search powers; and continuing to improve the reporting and recording of racist incidents. Copies of the conference report and the government response to Dr Stone's, the EHRC and the...

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report: 10 Years On (21 Jul 2009)

Alan Johnson: ...the anniversary. This work includes: increasing the recruitment, retention and progression of minority ethnic police officers and police staff; reducing unjustified disproportionality in the use of stop and search powers; and continuing to improve the reporting and recording of racist incidents. Copies of the conference report and the government response to Dr. Stone's, the EHRC and the...

Written Answers — Home Department: Police (20 Jul 2009) See 1 other result from this answer

Keith Vaz: ...made of the proportion of time spent by police officers in each police force (a) on front-line duties and (b) in completing (i) all administrative, (ii) incident-related administrative and (iii) stop and search forms in the latest period for which figures are available; (2) what estimate he has made of the proportion of the working day spent by police officers, (a) on front-line duties...

Deferred Divisions: Defence (15 Jul 2009)

That the draft Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009, which was laid before this House on 1 June, be approved.

Written Answers — Home Department: Stop and Search (6 Jul 2009)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department issues to police forces on the use of stop and search techniques in detecting crime.

Written Answers — Home Department: Offensive Weapons: Kent (6 Jul 2009)

Alan Campbell: ..., covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery. From these centrally reported data it is not possible to separate arrests for knife offences from the main offence groups. The stop and search collections held by the Home Office cover searches and resultant arrests under various legislation, including those for offensive weapons. These data cannot separately identify...

Building Britain's Future — Statement (29 Jun 2009)

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon: ...crime prevention measures; and to vote on how offenders pay back to the community. Our policing, crime and private security Bill will give the police more time on the beat by changing and reducing the reporting requirements for police officers on stop-and-search forms. New rights to ensure that women are better protected against violence will take account of recommendations made in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Building Britain's Future (29 Jun 2009) has video

Gordon Brown: ...pay back to the community. Our policing, crime and private security Bill will give the police more time on the beat, by changing and reducing the reporting requirements for police officers on stop-and-search forms, as well as new rights to ensure that women are better protected against violence. That will take account of recommendations made in response to our consultation on violence...

Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009 (18 Jun 2009)

Armed Forces, Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 2009 — Motion to Approve (18 Jun 2009) See 1 other result from this debate

Baroness Taylor of Bolton: ...to correct this small error at the printing stage. I mention it here in order that Members with an interest in the subject are aware of the correction that is being made. The Armed Forces (Powers of Stop and Search, Search, Seizure and Retention) Order 2009 supplements the provisions of the 2006 Act which lay down the broad powers of the service police to stop and search members of the...

[Mr. Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Policing in the 21st Century (11 Jun 2009) See 1 other result from this Westminster Hall debate

David Ruffley: ..., East (Mr. McNulty), who was then a Minister of State at the Home Office, on the specific point about reforming the RIPA codes. I shall not detain the House with detail about stop-and-account and stop-and-search, save to say that Her Majesty's Opposition as long ago as 2005 believed that the stop-and-account form should be abolished in totality—but not stop-and-search. That now...

Youth Crime — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (10 Jun 2009) See 3 other results from this Westminster Hall debate

Alan Campbell: ...we want to feel safe." Let us see if we can do that. It is not just about having more social housing, for example, but about better designing the estates on which those social houses are being built. That is crucial. Stop-and-search has been mentioned. That is an important part of what the police do, but I accept that it has to be sensitively done. We are also making important improvements...

Opposition Day — [12th Allotted Day]: Knife Crime (9 Jun 2009) has video See 11 other results from this debate

David Hanson: ...into 13 areas—that has now been extended to 16 areas—to have a serious impact on high levels of knife crime and to tackle the issues that we have discussed today. The plan includes the use of stop and search and of search wands to detect illicitly carried knives. It also involves extra policing positively to deal with these issues. This is about partnership. The plan also...

Public Bill Committee: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]: Clause 22 (9 Jun 2009)

Damian Green: ...and the Committee know, PACE and the accompanying codes of practice provide the core framework for police powers and safeguards in all police activities that are being adopted by UKBA officers—stop-and-search, arrest, detention, investigation, identification and interviewing detainees. The eight codes of practice cover the range of powers and are directly relevant to the powers given...