Sexually Transmitted Infections: Crime
(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has plans to provide police with additional powers police to assist investigations into cases involving the deliberate transmission of sexual diseases.
This question was answered on 24th January 2019
Where an allegation is made to the police of deliberate transmission of a sexual disease, the police already have powers to investigate under Sections 18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.