Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 Elizabeth II. Chapter 16

Format:

Corporate Author:

Great Britain

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

The measures included in the Act are divided into six Parts: Provisions for combating crime and disorder (including alcohol-related disorder); Powers of Seizure; Amendments to The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and the Terrorism Act 2000; Police Training ' Police Organisation; Miscellaneous and Supplemental Measures. It will give the police extra powers to tackle disorder in public places, for example, by closing, immediately, licensed premises where disorder is occurring, raising the age of child curfew schemes to 16 and issuing fixed penalty notices for a range of offences.