Schedules Schedule 12: Serious Crime Prevention Orders: Power for the police to apply in terrorism-related cases
SCPOs are orders intended to be used against those involved in serious crime, with the terms attached to an order designed to protect the public by preventing, restricting or disrupting involvement in serious crime.
	Schedule 12 amends the Serious Crime Act 2007 to expand the range of applicant authorities able to apply for an SCPO to include chief officers of police. The functions of chief officers of police are limited to applying in civil courts for SCPOs in terrorism-related cases, and only where they have consulted the relevant prosecuting authority prior to making the application.
	The inclusion of chief officers of police as an applicant authority does not alter the power of other applicant authorities from also applying for an SCPO in terrorism-related cases.
	An SCPO may be made by the Crown Court (in Scotland, the High Court of Justiciary or the sheriff) where it is sentencing a person who has been convicted of a serious offence (including when sentencing a person convicted of such an offence in a magistrates’ court but committed to the Crown Court for sentencing). Orders may also be made by the High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session or a sheriff) where it is satisfied that a person has been involved in serious crime, whether that involvement was in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (as the case may be), or elsewhere, and where it has reasonable grounds to believe that the order would protect the public by preventing, restricting or disrupting involvement by the subject of the order in serious crime in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland (as the case may be). A serious offence is one which is listed in Schedule 1 to the 2007 Act, or an offence which is sufficiently serious that the court considers it should be treated as it were on the list.