Police_and_Justice_Act_2006

Police and Justice Act 2006

Police and Justice Act 2006

United Kingdom legislation

The Police and Justice Act 2006 (PJA) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It received royal assent on 8 November 2006.[1] The PJA created the National Policing Improvement Agency.[2] It changed how members of police authorities may be appointed and altered their duties.[3][4][5] It increased police officers' powers to impose bail conditions when releasing a suspect.[6] Along with the Serious Crime Act 2007, the PJA also updated the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which was regarded as outdated when the two statutes were passed.[7] Pursuant to the PJA, the scope of the Computer Misuse Act was extended to deal with denial-of-service attacks.[8]

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  1. [1]
    Fafinski 2008, p. 53.
  2. [2]
    Partington, Martin (2008). An Introduction to the English Legal System (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-923810-1. OCLC 187292879.
  3. [3]
    Newburn, Tim (2008). "Police and Justice Act 2006". In Newburn, Tim; Neyroud, Peter (eds.). Dictionary of Policing. Willan. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-1-84972-466-1. OCLC 437303088.
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    Duckworth, Karen (2021). "Has the COVID-19 pandemic manoeuvred policing in England and Wales towards a single national police organisation?". Journal of Global Faultlines. 8 (1): 117. doi:10.13169/jglobfaul.8.1.0114. S2CID 236698192.
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    Joyce, Peter (2011). Policing: Development & Contemporary Practice. SAGE Publishing. p. xvii. ISBN 978-1-4462-4826-3. OCLC 794488045.
  6. [6]
    Cape, Ed; Edwards, Richard A. (2010). "Police Bail without Charge: The Human Rights Implications" (PDF). Cambridge Law Journal. 69 (3): 541. doi:10.1017/S0008197310000796. ISSN 0008-1973. JSTOR 40962714. S2CID 145474903. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 May 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  7. [7]
    Leyden, John (30 September 2008). "UK cybercrime overhaul finally comes into effect". The Register. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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    Wall, David S. (2007). Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age. Polity. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-0-7456-2735-9. OCLC 122283492.

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