The Crime and Policing Bill is to be introduced in parliament today in the first step to becoming law, and includes measures that address the most harmful crimes impacting society today, like terrorism, cybercrime, knife crime, and violence against women and girls.

Among many new rules, the Bill will update counter-terrorism powers by implementing the recommendations of the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, such as introducing youth diversion orders to pivot young people away from becoming involved in terrorism-related activity. There will also be tougher restrictions on violence against women and girls by creating new offences that criminalise unconsenually taking intimate videos or photos, a new offence for spiking, and empowering the police to release the identity of online stalkers to victims, as well as better stalking protection orders.

Under the new measures, police will be able to search properties without a warrant where stolen items like phones have been electronically geolocated, and 13,000 extra neighbourhood policing staff are set to be recruited.

The Bill will also introduce tougher action on knife crime, such as creating a power to seize, retain and remove bladed weapons found on private property, increasing the maximum penalty for sale of dangerous weapons to under-18s, and making possessing a bladed article with the intention to cause harm a new criminal offence.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper, on the introducing of the new Bill, said: “This flagship Crime and Policing Bill is at the heart of our mission for safer streets and this government’s Plan for Change.

“For too long communities have had to put up with rising town centre and street crime, and persistent antisocial behaviour, while neighbourhood police have been cut. And for years too little has been done to tackle the most serious violence of all including knife crime and violence against women and children.

“That is why the new Crime and Policing Bill is about taking back our streets and town centres, restoring respect for law and order, and giving the police and local communities the support and tools they need to tackle local crime.”

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