Talk:Policing and Crime Act 2009

Information

I've tried to make it as NPOV as possible, however as of yet, I've been unable to find anything positive (that's been reported or is on the internet).

I'll add an introduction soon as to how it was introduced (in terms of Harriet Harman saying it should be made illegal)Calvin (talk) 15:42, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Peer Review check list

• The lead should be an accessible and inviting overview of the whole article. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way, so the lead could be expanded to two (or even three) paragraphs. As one example, the Background section does not seem to be in the lead. Please see WP:LEAD  Done
• Some sections have good references, but others have none at all, such as "Police reform" - My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref. See WP:CITE and WP:V Done
• The article is fairly listy in spots, and it has several short (one or two sentence) paragraphs and even sections. To improve article flow, the lists could be convertedto prose in many cases and the short paragraphs (sections) could be combined with others or perhaps expanded. Reception is all one sentence paragraphs, for example. Done
• Two sections of the article are named "Other amendments" - WP:HEAD says to avoid this if at all possible (multiple sections with the same name) as it causes confusion Done
• Is there any chance for an image or two? Even of the Houses of Parliament? Done
• I do not know as much about modern politics in the UK as I should, but it seems like there has to be more detail on the bills passage in Parliament than one sentence (with no ref): The Policing and Crime Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 18 December 2008 and was passed to the House of Lords on the 20 May 2009. What were the vote totals? Who sopke in favor of the bill and who opposed it? Do British bills have sponsors (and if so who was / were they)?
• Ref 8 needs a publisher Done
• Is there more news coverage on the bill? Editorials for or against it? Analyses of it by news outlets? There area few BBC and Guardian refs, but were thewre more stories?
• Shoule there be a redirect to the article from "An Act to make provision about the police; to make provision about prostitution, sex offenders, sex establishments and certain other premises; to make provision for reducing and dealing with the abuse of alcohol; to make provision about the proceeds of crime; to make provision about extradition; to amend the Aviation Security Act 1982; to make provision about criminal records and to amend the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007; to confer, extend or facilitate search, forfeiture and other powers relating to the United Kingdom’s borders or elsewhere; to make further provision for combatting crime and disorder; to repeal redundant provisions; and for connected purposes."  ;-)
• Not sure if this would be an issue or not, but articles are supposed to be stable to pass GAN - are there likely to be more developments in the article as the law is put into practice / implemented? If so, would they be major enough to make the article seem unstable? Not sure I expressed this well - for example an article on the Community Charge Poll Tax less than a month after its passage would look different than one written today.

Calvin (talk) 16:52, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure how serious you are being about the redirect, but we don't usually make redirects from the long titles. If someone knows enough about the Act to hit a title longer than some of our stub articles then they probably also know the short title. If not they can go to any other Act of the UK Parliament and follow the navbox links to a list of 2009 acts and get here that way. Road Wizard (talk) 17:59, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I do believe the peer reviewer was making a joke :p Calvin (talk) 22:51, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, which was why I acknowledged it with, "I am not sure how serious you are being". If you raise an issue at peer review you should expect to receive an answer. ^_~ Road Wizard (talk) 22:56, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

TODO List

From the latest peer review:

• Add Tory and Lib Dem views of the Act.
• Add Alcohol industry vews of the Act.
• A number of the references point to the Act (eg refs 22 to 25), is it not possible to make these links to the material online?
• Add more regarding Extradition, Proceeds of Crime and Aviation aspects. Might be a good idea to find more regarding Police collaberation too.

Also, some information on here: http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/press-releases/policing-crime-bill.html may be useful. Calvin (talk) 19:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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Coat of arms

Hi, the article currently uses the 2022 coat of arms, surely the 1952 arms would be more appropriate considering the date of the legislation? I would change it but I'm still fairly new to Wikipedia and can't figure out how Ted Jillani (talk) 22:41, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit: Ignore that, I've finally out how to do it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ted Jillani (talk • contribs) 00:43, 12 April 2023 (UTC)