Submitted on Monday 15th March 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Scrap the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
The Home Office is currently putting forward sweeping reforms to our policing and judiciary which pose a threat to a integral pillar of a democratic society. This petition is acting ask a direct public intervention to scrap the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.
The changes outlined in this bill will have a fundamental negative effect on the publics right to protest and the freedom of expression we cherish as a right in a modern democracy.
The sweeping powers this bill affords the police are counter productive to the aims we should be achieving. Instead of driving a wedge and a divide between the public and the police the bill should be more reflective on how the police and organisers can work together with planned protests.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Do not restrict our rights to peaceful protest: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579012
Remove single person protest clauses in Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578875
Do not pass the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579242
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