Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is to announce a number of measures to tackle anti-social crime
Dirt bikes could be seized immediately by police from youths who ride them illegally under a raft of new powers set to be handed to police to tackle anti-social crime.will announce a clampdown on anti-social behaviour, theft and shoplifting, by cracking down on dangerous off-road bikes and introducing a new standalone offence for assaulting shop workers – a measure the Tory government also said it would introduce.
On Tuesday Ms Cooper will announce that legislation is to be brought forward next to introduce new “Respect Orders” to allow police to “more swiftly seize off-road vehicles that are deliberately being used to terrorise town centres and neighbourhood estates”.understands this will give police powers to seize the vehicles immediately, rather than apply for a court order.
A crackdown will include a new taskforce, to include police and ministers, aimed a stymying knife-enabled robbery, which has risen 13 per cent in the last year. Its remit will be to target hotspots, stop stolen goods being sold on and disrupt supply chains incentivising the crime. “You don’t get social justice if you don’t have justice. Respect is the very foundation of our democracy.
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