Vagrancy Act 1824: Kent Police

(asked on 9th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of times the Vagrancy Act 1824 has been used by Kent Police since 2015.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 16th March 2020

The information requested is not centrally available as the Home Office only collects data on police activity in relation to notifiable offences, that is, those indictable or triable-either-way cases that may be heard at a Crown Court. Offences under the Vagrancy Act are not notifiable.

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