On 30 April 2026 the UK Parliament gave Royal Assent to the Crime and Policing Act, a comprehensive bill that expands policing powers and strengthens measures against crime. The Act introduces respect orders that allow police to ban repeat offenders from town centres, removes the requirement for a prior warning before seizing vehicles used antisocially, and eliminates the £200 threshold for shoplifting. It creates new offences for assaulting retail workers, child criminal exploitation, and cuckooing, and gives courts wider authority to issue stalking protection orders. Additional provisions target knife sales online, require age verification, and impose fines on tech companies that fail to remove illegal content. The government also announced plans to increase neighbourhood officers by 13,000 by the end of the parliamentary term.
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