Policy paper: Crime and Policing Act 2026: factsheets

The act includes a range of measures, as follows:

1. Tackling anti-social behaviour by introducing respect orders.

2. Removing the need for police to issue a warning before seizing vehicles being used antisocially.

3. Strengthening existing antisocial behaviour closure powers by extending the power to issue closure notices to registered social housing providers, extending the duration of closure notices from 48 hours to 72 hours and enabling the Home Secretary to extend the maximum duration of closure orders.

4. Increasing the upper limit of fixed penalty notices for anti-social behaviour from £100 to £500, whilst requiring the Home Secretary to issue guidance on the proportionate issue of fixed penalty notices by local authorities and other authorised persons.

5. Providing a regulation-making power to the Secretary of State to mandate local authorities provide data on antisocial behaviour.

6. Introducing new offences of arranging or facilitating begging for gain and trespassing with intent to commit a criminal offence will ensure that police have the powers they need following the upcoming repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824.

7. Giving ministers the power to issue statutory guidance to councils in England on the enforcement of fly-tipping, including the use of their powers to seize vehicles.

8. Granting courts the power to add between 3 and 9 penalty points on the driving licences of individuals convicted of a fly-tipping offence involving the use of a vehicle.