Campaigners’ anger as 1,173 held despite ministers’ pledge to scrap legislation
More than 1,000 homeless people have been arrested for sleeping rough or begging since the government pledged to scrap the nearly 200-year-old Vagrancy Act, new figures show.
Ministers have been holding off removing the Vagrancy Act from the statute book until they draw up replacement laws, with legislation repealing the act lacking an implementation date. to replace the act with new powers for local authorities and the police to move on homeless people “causing nuisance” by obstructing shop doorways and begging beside cashpoint machines.to crack down on antisocial behaviour by giving the police powers to impose new “respect orders” to deal with issues such as street drinking and the harassment of shoppers in town centres.
Downie added that simply shunting people from one doorway to the next solved nothing. “We must not find ourselves in a situation where we finally abolish one destructive law only for it to be replaced with another,” he said.
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