In one of the biggest legislative updates to policing for decades, a package of new laws will tackle antisocial behaviour, shop theft and street crime.

The Crime and Policing Bill pulls together many measures set out in Labour’s general election manifesto, but they come amid questions over whether police have the money to make the government’s plan work.

Ministers say that the enormous piece of legislation will target the crimes that communities want prioritised to make their areas feel safer and to bear down on behaviour that has gone unpunished.

Under the bill, police gain the power to enter and search a property without a court warrant for a stolen mobile phone, or other items that have been electronically tracked such as laptops or Bluetooth-tagged bikes.

The power means that victims of mobile phone thefts, who are tracking their device while still in the hands of a criminal, can call on police to recover it quickly.