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Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018
Summary
This Act creates a special law making it a crime to assault emergency workers (like police, paramedics, and firefighters) with harsher punishments than regular assault. It recognizes that these workers face violence while doing important jobs and aims to protect them better.
A vote to support means
- —Supporting this Act means protecting people who help us in emergencies, like police officers, paramedics, and firefighters. It makes assaulting these workers a specific crime with tougher punishments, showing that attacking someone trying to save lives or keep us safe is taken very seriously.
A vote to oppose means
- —Some people worry the Act might be used unfairly or that it treats attacks on emergency workers as more serious than attacks on other people, even though all violence is wrong. Others question whether it actually stops assaults or just increases punishments after the fact.
Cast Your Vote
People's Vote0 votes
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Bill Passage
Commons
- 1st reading19 Jul 2017
- 2nd reading20 Oct 2017
- Committee stage15 Nov 2017
- Report stage27 Apr 2018
- 3rd reading27 Apr 2018
Lords
- 1st reading30 Apr 2018
- 2nd reading29 Jun 2018
- 3rd reading24 Jul 2018
Royal Assent13 Sept 2018
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