The Police and Justice Act 2006 (PJA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It received royal assent on 8 November 2006.[1] The PJA created the National Policing Improvement Agency.[2] It changed how members of police authorities may be appointed and altered their duties.[3][4][5] It increased police officers' powers to impose bail conditions when releasing a suspect.[6] Along with the Serious Crime Act 2007, the PJA also updated the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which was regarded as outdated when the two statutes were passed.[7] Pursuant to the PJA, the scope of the Computer Misuse Act was extended to deal with denial-of-service attacks.[8]
| Police and Justice Act 2006 | |
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| Long title | An Act to establish a National Policing Improvement Agency; to make provision about police forces and police authorities and about police pensions; to make provision about police powers and about the powers and duties of community support officers, weights and measures inspectors and others; to make provision about the supply to the police and others of information contained in registers of death; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to make further provision about certain inspectorates; to amend Part 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003; to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990; to make provision about the forfeiture of indecent images of children; to provide for the conferring of functions on the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the exercise of enforcement functions by officials involved with immigration and asylum; to amend the Extradition Act 2003; to make further provision about the use of live links in criminal proceedings; and for connected purposes. |
| Citation | 2006 c 48 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 8 November 2006 |
Status: Current legislation | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Revised text of statute as amended | |
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Notes edit
- ^ Fafinski 2008, p. 53.
- ^ Partington, Martin (2008). An Introduction to the English Legal System (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-923810-1. OCLC 187292879.
- ^ Newburn, Tim (2008). "Police and Justice Act 2006". In Newburn, Tim; Neyroud, Peter (eds.). Dictionary of Policing. Willan. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-1-84972-466-1. OCLC 437303088.
- ^ Duckworth, Karen (2021). "Has the COVID-19 pandemic manoeuvred policing in England and Wales towards a single national police organisation?". Journal of Global Faultlines. 8 (1): 117. doi:10.13169/jglobfaul.8.1.0114. S2CID 236698192.
- ^ Joyce, Peter (2011). Policing: Development & Contemporary Practice. SAGE Publishing. p. xvii. ISBN 978-1-4462-4826-3. OCLC 794488045.
- ^ Cape, Ed; Edwards, Richard A. (2010). "Police Bail without Charge: The Human Rights Implications" (PDF). Cambridge Law Journal. 69 (3): 541. doi:10.1017/S0008197310000796. ISSN 0008-1973. JSTOR 40962714. S2CID 145474903. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ Leyden, John (30 September 2008). "UK cybercrime overhaul finally comes into effect". The Register. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ Wall, David S. (2007). Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age. Polity. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-0-7456-2735-9. OCLC 122283492.
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- The Police and Justice Act 2006, as amended from the National Archives.
- The Police and Justice Act 2006, as originally enacted from the National Archives.
- Explanatory notes to the Police and Justice Act 2006.
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