Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill - individual RIAs

Date: Tue Nov 30 15:04:10 GMT 2004

• Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill - Summary RIA (PDF file - 64kb)

  The Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill is divided into 6 parts:- Part 1 establishes the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), provides for its constitution and defines its functions and powers and its relationship with Ministers.

• Extension of Designated Police Staff Powers under s.38 of the Police Reform Act (PDF file - 30kb)

  Extension of designated police staff powers under s.38 of Police Reform Act

• Protest outside homes and harassment (PDF file - 34kb)

  A new offence of protesting outside someone’s home in a way which causes harassment, alarm or distress and the extension of harassment legislation to cover the harassment of two or more people.

• Incitement to religious hatred (PDF file - 36kb)

  New offences which will extend existing incitement to racial hatred laws to incitement against people identified by their religious beliefs or absence of religious beliefs.

• Offence of using an incorrectly registered vehicle (PDF file - 35kb)

  The objective is to reduce the number of incorrectly registered vehicles, which are regularly used in criminal and anti-social undertakings, and the owners or users of which it is difficult to establish.

• Power to charge for 'Pova First' checks (PDF file - 35kb)

  Power to charge for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults Scheme (POVA FIRST) checks.

• Powers for Police Community Support Officers and Accredited Persons (PDF file - 39kb)

  Increased powers for Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and persons accredited under Community Safety Accreditation schemes.

• Regulation of the private security industry in Scotland (PDF file - 66kb)

  This Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) supports amendments to the Private Security Industry Act 2001 that will introduce regulation of the private security industry in Scotland by extending the remit of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) to include Scotland.

• Race Equality Impact Assessment for the Serious Organised Crime & Police Bill (PDF file - 1mb - Warning: large file)

  This policy will expand on the existing incitement to racial hatred law, contained in the Public Order Act 1986, by making it an offence to incite religious hatred.

• Rationalisation of Arrest Powers and Execution of Arrest Warrants (PDF file - 36kb)

  Rationalise powers of arrest and raise the capacity to enable more effective approaches for the application of and execution of warrants

• Seizure of uninsured vehicles (PDF file - 35kb)

  Powers to seize uninsured vehicles

• SOCA and Organised Crime Powers (PDF file - 67kb)

  The creation of SOCA with new powers and the more concerted use of existing powers against organised crime.

• Powers of Stop, Search and Seizure in relation to Fireworks Offences (PDF file - 59kb)

  Giving the police Powers of Stop, Search and Seizure in relation to fireworks offences.

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