This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Police Powers To Deal With Squatters
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New powers to the police to make squatting a criminal offence with a jail term attached and an order to never return to that property again but also to clean up and help resotre the persons house they have vandalised.
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