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Additional
Powers agreed by the Chief Constable but awaiting Royal Assent
(ratification
expected September 2007)
Power to issue Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) for dog fouling Power of an authorised officer of a local authority to give a notice under section 4 of the Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996.
Power to issue FPN graffiti/fly-posting
Power of an authorised officer of a local authority to give a notice under section 43(1) of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003.
Power to issue fixed penalty notices in respect of offences under dog control orders: power of an authorised officer of a primary or secondary authority, within the meaning of section 59 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, to give notice under that section (fixed penalty notices in respect of dog control orders).
Power to stop vehicles for testing, power to escort abnormal loads and power to carry out road checks
Limited power to enter licensed premises: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill allows PCSOs to be designated with a power to enter licensed premises under section 180 of the Licensing Act 2003 for the purposes of investigating relevant licensing offences.
Power to search for alcohol and tobacco: Where a person has failed to comply with a requirement under paragraph 5 or 6 or has failed to allow a PCSO to seize tobacco under paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the Police Reform Act 2002 and a PCSO reasonably believes that the person is in possession of alcohol or tobacco then a PCSO may search them for it and dispose of anything found.
Power to seize drugs and require name and address for possession of drugs: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 allows PCSOs to be designated with a power seize unconcealed drugs or drugs found when searching for alcohol, tobacco or dangerous items. The PCSO must retain the drugs until a constable instructs them what to do with it.
Power to issue Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) for: sale of alcohol to a person under 18; purchase of alcohol for person under 18; delivery of alcohol to person under 18; drinking in designated area; consumption of alcohol by person under 18 or allowing such consumption; buying or attempting to buy alcohol by a person under 18 and sells or attempts to sell alcohol to a person who is drunk.
Power to deal with begging: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 makes offences under sections 3 and 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 into relevant offences. It also gives PCSOs a power to detain a person who they have required to stop committing an offence under sections 3 and 4 of the Vagrancy Act and who has failed to comply with the requirement.
Power to issue PND for breach of fireworks curfew; possession of a category 4 firework; possession by persons under 18 of an adult firework; supply of excessively load firework
Power to require name and address for relevant offences Power to require the name and address of a person whom a PCSO has reason to believe has committed a relevant offence (Relevant offences are defined under subparagraph 2(6) of Schedule 4 of the Police Reform Act).
Power to detain: Power to detain a person whom a PCSO has reason to believe has committed a relevant offence who fails to comply with a requirement to give name and address or who gives an answer which the PCSO reasonably suspects to be false or inaccurate for up to 30 minutes or until the arrival of a police officer (or to accompany that person to a police station if he or she elects to do so on request).
Power to photograph persons away from a police station: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 enables PCSOs to be designated with the power to photograph a person who has been arrested, detained or given a fixed penalty notice away from the police station.
Power to stop and search in authorised areas: Powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 in authorised areas to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians when in the company and under the supervision of a constable.
Power to enforce cordoned areas: under section 36 of the Terrorism Act 2000
Power to enforce byelaws: The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 provides that offences committed under relevant byelaws are relevant offences under paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 4 of the Police Reform Act 2002. A relevant byelaw is a byelaw from a list of byelaws that has been agreed between a chief constable and a relevant byelaw-making body.
Power to remove children in contravention of curfew notices to their place of residence: Power to remove a child to their place of residence if the PCSO has reason to believe that the child is in contravention of a curfew notice under sub-sections 15(1), (2) and (3) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Power to issue FPN for truancy Power of a constable to give a penalty notice under section 444A of the Education Act 1996.
Power to remove truants to a designated place: where a local authority designates premises to which young person or child may be removed under this section, Powers of a constable in uniform to remove a child or young person that they have reasonable cause to believe is absent from school without lawful authority, back to the school or to designated premises.
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