Amending ss.4 and 28 of the Police Act 1964 (the 1964 Act). Except where expressly provided, references to section numbers can be taken to refer to the 1964 Act as amended by the PMCA.
2.
Sections 4A, 28B and 4B respectively.
3.
Taken from the Introduction to the WYPP, p. 1.
4.
Section 4B(1).
5.
As provided by s.4B. The issue of consultation, particularly public consultation, will be returned to later on.
6.
Section 4B(1).
7.
Section 4B(5).
8.
Section 4C.
9.
“Police Reform: A Police Service for the Twentieth Century” (1993) Cm 2281.
10.
Ibid., para.1.7.
11.
Ibid., para.2.22.
12.
Ibid., para.4.1.
13.
Ibid., para.4.12.
14.
Ibid., para.4.15.
15.
Ibid., para.4.19.
16.
Ibid., para.4.21.
17.
Ibid., para.6.3.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid., para.6.6
20.
Ibid., para.6.8.
21.
Ibid., para.6.11.
22.
Ibid., ch.7.
23.
Ibid., in particular paras.4.3, 4.15, 4.17, 4.30 and 6.18.
24.
For example, it was estimated that in 1991 violent crime, which would include more serious sexual offences and robbery, made up only 5.4 per cent of the total crimes committed, whereas vehicle crime, including vandalism and both actual and attempted theft of and from vehicles, made up over one-third of all crimes that year, 36.4 per cent;MayhewP. (1993) The 1992 British Crime Survey, HORS 132, London: HMSO, p. 13.
25.
See, for example, MaxfieldM.G. (1984) Fear of Crime in England and Wales, HORS 78, London: HMSO (based upon data from the 1982 British Crime Survey), and more recently, HoughM. (1995) Anxiety about Crime: Findings from the 1994 British Crime Survey, HORS 147, London: HMSO.
26.
This backs up the findings of the British Crime Surveys (see for example SkoganW. (1990) The Police and the Public in England and Wales: A British Crime Survey Report, HORS 117, London: HMSO, and Mayhew, op. cit. and also the results of public opinion surveys conducted within West Yorkshire and reported in the WYPP.
