questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of policing powers in addressing incidents involving involving large and spontaneously formed groups engaged in anti-social behaviour and criminality impacting local communities and retailers, where individual responsibility is difficult to establish; and what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) enforcement and (b) accountability.
answerText: In the UK people are free to gather and protest, provided this remains lawful. Where groups engage in unlawful behaviour, including actions that are violent or cause harassment, alarm, or distress to others, the police have powers to respond. The use of t...
heading: Anti-social Behaviour