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  Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill - Decline Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted no to introduce Police and Crime Commissioners, to give local councils more powers in relation to licensing, and in support of the other measures in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. 
  
  @ MP voted aye against introducing Police and Crime Commissioners, against giving local councils more powers in relation to licensing, and against the other measures in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted to approve the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill[1] and to support it becoming law. 
  
  Some of the Bill's key provisions included:
  
  * Introducing directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners to set local policing strategy. 
  * Giving more powers to local councils in relation to licensing. 
  * Changing the way demonstrations near Parliament are regulated.
  * Empowering the Home Secretary to temporarily ban drugs for up to a year and reforming the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
  * A new requirement for private prosecutors to obtain the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions prior to the issue of an arrest warrant for âuniversal jurisdictionâ offences such as war crimes or torture
  
  
  The text of motion rejected in this vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''declines'' to give a Second Reading to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill because it introduces an expensive set of reforms which will do nothing to bring the police closer to the communities they serve; 
  :''because'' it risks a single elected politician remote from the frontline overruling operational policing decisions, thus ending one hundred and seventy years of tradition of police independence from politicians;
  :''because'' it gives insufficient attention to the risks of police force collaboration being undermined by the creation of individually elected police commissioners; and 
  :''because'' the Government has indicated that it will implement this expensive and disruptive reform in the same year as the Government is making the biggest annual cut to police funding as set out in the Spending Review.
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/policereformandsocialresponsibility.html Parliament's webpage on Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill 2011 (Now an Act)]
  
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