This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Closed petition Change trespassing from a civil offence to a criminal offence.
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More and more trespassing and trespassers are exempt from any direct police action. What follows are costly legal proceedings against trespassers to eventually evict and in some cases the trespassers return to start the whole eviction process again.
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