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Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, it is extremely difficult for the police to do that. I return to the example that I gave earlier. Because the young man was arrested, having threatened to shoot a PCSO, it was possible to impose bail conditions excluding him from the area of the gangs who kept shooting him and whom he was trying to shoot. When that case went to court, he was found guilty and the exclusion and curfew were not part of the sentencing order. Therefore, with no bail conditions, there was no reason why he could not return and he did exactly that. It is difficult for the police to protect people who do not want to be protected. Of course, by returning to the area there can be an exchange of gunfire, which will affect the public.