“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.”.
Ms Cooper told Nick Ferrari on LBC: “This legislation is about giving police and communities power to take back control of town centres against the shoplifting, the street theft, the anti-social behaviour that can blight too many town centres and neighbourhoods, tackling off-road bikes.
The Government has already announced a raft of anti-knife crime measures, collectively known as Ronan’s Law, to tackle knife sales, including making retailers report to police any bulk or suspicious sales, and increasing to two years the jail sentence for selling weapons to children, or illegal blades such as zombie knives.
Of the new Bill, the Home Secretary said: “For too long communities have had to put up with rising town centre and street crime, and persistent anti-social behaviour, while neighbourhood police have been cut.
There will also be new respect orders to ban people responsible for repeated anti-social behaviour from town centres, as well as new criminal offences over spiking, and to stop registered sex offenders who continue to pose a threat from changing their name.
