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 bulk or suspicious sales to police, and increasing to two years the jail sentence for selling weapons to children, or illegal blades such as zombie knives.
“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.”.
There will also be new respect orders to ban people responsible for repeated antisocial 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.
Police would no longer need a warrant to search a property for a stolen phone under measures to be introduced in the Government’s new Bill to tackle crime.
John Hayward-Cripps, chief executive of Neighbourhood Watch, said: “The focus on addressing and reducing the epidemic of antisocial behaviour, theft and shoplifting that we all witness in our town centres and communities will play an important role in increasing feelings of confidence in the police, and feeling safer in our local communities.”.
