The Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that abolished control orders and provides new powers to allow the Home Secretary to impose restrictions on the behaviour of a specified individual via means of a "TPIM" notice. TPIM notices can include restrictions on movement, financial activity and communication.

Subsequent history

In the wake of the June

2017 London Bridge attack On 3 June 2017, a terrorist vehicle-ramming and stabbing took place in London, England. A van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge, and then crashed on Borough High Street, just south of the River Thames. The van's three occ ...

, Iain Duncan Smith spoke on BBC news programme '' The World At One'' to point out that the David Cameron coalition government that included Theresa May as Home Secretary had "watered down" the civil powers of the Control Order scheme, which were replaced by the TPIM scheme. Duncan Smith talked about how Control Orders provided sweeping powers to put terror suspects under house arrest without convicting them while the TPIM scheme allowed enhanced tracking, such as with ankle monitors, but has resulted much less use. The TPIM scheme ended the power of police to force a suspect to live elsewhere: in other words, police could remove someone from their home, far from where they might plot with associates.

References

External links

* {{UK-LEG, path=ukpga/2011/23, title=Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011, type=ukpga
Explanatory notes
to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011. United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2011 Terrorism laws in the United Kingdom Islamic terrorism in England