Details of new Crime and Security Bill published

New proposals to protect communities by making the streets safer, shutting down criminal markets and ensuring justice for victims of crime were revealed today in the Crime and Security Bill.

The new Bill includes:

• Extending injunctions for violent gang members to under 18s to help them out of the violent gang lifestyle and make communities feel safer.
• Making families take responsibility for their children's antisocial behaviour by assessing parenting needs when young people aged 10-15 years are given ASBOs and imposing parenting orders if they are breached.
• Tackling domestic violence with orders issued by police officers requiring an alleged perpetrator to leave the premises for a fixed period of time, empowering victims to feel safe in their own homes rather than seeking refuge elsewhere.
• Protecting the public by ensuring the right people are on our DNA database by indefinitely retaining the DNA records of convicted offenders and holding the DNA of those who are acquitted for a proportionate amount of time.
• A tough new compulsory licensing scheme for the wheel clamping industry to prevent unscrupulous companies from exploiting car drivers.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: "I am determined to make our streets and communities safer. These new measures set out today will help tackle a range of issues which can affect individuals and neighbourhoods, whether it's anti social behaviour causing misery to local residents or young people engaging in violent gang behaviour.

"I want to help those most at risk; preventing the cycle of crime and violence. The new measures are tough, but they also include measures such as help to leave a gang and compulsory parenting orders when a young person breaches an ASBO."

Other measures include:

• Retrospectively collecting DNA from serious violent and sexual offenders allowing us to take DNA samples from sex offenders returning to the UK following conviction overseas, and to collect DNA from convicted offenders who are back in our communities.
• Freeing up police time to tackle crime in our communities by reducing the information requirements for the police to stop and search.
• Preventing the use of unauthorised mobile phones in prison, stopping organised criminals and terrorists from continuing their criminal enterprises from behind bars.
• Ensuring airguns are safely locked up and out of the reach of children, preventing senseless tragedies through the improper storage of these dangerous weapons.