The Prime Minister, in an emergency statement to the Commons on the violence, suggested sites such as Twitter could be closed down during periods of disorder to avoid co-ordinated unrest.
Mr Cameron also insisted anyone convicted of rioting should go to jail and promised that reinforced police numbers would be sustained in the coming days.
MPs were recalled to Parliament during the summer holiday after four days of rioting in English cities shocked the nation.
The Prime Minister declared it was time for the country to 'pull together' as he declared that any offenders would face the consequences of their actions.
A solemn David Cameron addressing the House of Commons about the riots
Police will now be allowed to order thugs remove face masks
Even those without the relevant insurance will be able to lodge a claim under the Riot Damages Act and the time period to do so has been extended from 14 days to six weeks.
Other measures include:
- Calling on councils to use their powers to evict offenders from social houses;
- Ministers looking into whether wider powers of curfew are needed;
- A £20million fund to help high street firms affected by riots;
- Businesses very badly hit will be allowed to defer tax payments;
- Councils permitted to grant business rate relief;
- Bellwin Scheme of emergency support to councils enacted;
- £10million recovery scheme to help town halls in clean-up;
- Government to meet immediate costs of housing families left homeless;
- Gang injunctions scheme to be extended across the UK;
- Ministerial group to prepare an action plan on gang culture.
'We have seen houses, offices and shops raided and torched, police officers assaulted and fire crews attacked as they try to put out fires, people robbing others while they lie injured and bleeding in the street, and even three innocent people being deliberately run over and killed in Birmingham.
'We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets.'
The House was almost totally full as Mr Cameron outlined measures to restore English cities
However, he dismissed a request by Labour leader Ed Miliband to rethink police budget cuts - insisting they would not affect frontline policing.
He said: 'We are looking for cash reductions of 6% over next four years - I believe that is totally achievable without any visible reduction of policing.
'At the end of this process of making sure our police budgets are affordable, we will still be able to surge as many police officers on to the streets as we have in recent days.'
Mr Cameron revealed there had been 'some evidence' that gangs were being the co-ordination of the attacks on police and the looting.
Talking about the example of Boston in the US, he said tackling the gang culture should become 'a national priority'.
The Prime Minister said the Government would be consulting with former New York and Los Angeles police commissioner Bill Bratton over how to tackle the issue.
In a Churchill-style rallying cry, he declared: 'This is a time for our country to pull together. To the law abiding people who play by the rules, and who are the overwhelming majority in this country, I say the fightback has begun, we will protect you, if you’ve had your livelihood and property damaged, we will compensate you. We are on your side.
'And to the lawless minority, the criminals who’ve taken what they can get. I say: We will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we will punish you. You will pay for what you have done.'
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband responding to David Cameron's statement
He also questioned the Government's plans to scale back the use of CCTV as part of its civil liberties drive, stressing it must be clear there is no affect on justice.
The Labour leader called for a full, independent inquiry to look into what happened and 'what lessons we need to learn'.
He said: 'To seek to explain is not to seek to excuse. Of course these are acts of individual criminality, but we all have a duty to ask ourselves, "Why are there people who feel they have nothing to lose and everything to gain from wanton vandalism and looting?"
'We cannot afford to let this pass, to calm the situation down, only to find ourselves in the same position again in the future.'
Former home secretary Jack Straw said the Prime Minister's comments on police numbers and budgets and prison numbers 'sounds very complacent'.
He said: 'These cuts will lead to fewer police on the streets', adding that the 'softer sentencing plans' needed to be reversed and there was a need to stop the proposals to close prisons.
Labour's Sir Gerald Kaufman asked if those perpetrating the acts were regarded as irreclaimable and if positive policies would be forthcoming to try to reclaim them for society.
Mr Cameron replied: 'We must never write people off, however bad they are. We must try and build a stronger society where you can actually turn people's lives around.'
Labour's Malcolm Wicks was among many MPs who called for a rethink of cuts in police numbers.
He said: 'The people in that Croydon war zone, because that's what it was, were making the plea "where were the police?"
'For hour after hour after hour, people were free to pillage and loot with no uniformed officers around.'
He said cutting the number of officers 'would be precisely the wrong policy at precisely the wrong time for our society'.
Mr Cameron told him: 'The problem was that the police weren't on the streets. The problem wasn't about police budgets in four years time, the problem was about the availability of the police right now.'
But Labour's Barry Gardiner argued: 'The events of the past five nights in London have changed the whole nature and context of the debate about police cuts.
'The people of London will not understand if they persist with this. They will not forgive. Even your own mayor now opposes you on this point.'
Mr Cameron insisted: 'People in London will understand that saying that over four years you have to make some cash reductions to the budget and live within the means of that budget.
'People in London have seen over the last few days what you can really do when you surge police numbers out from behind their desks and on to the streets from 3,000 to 16,000 in just two days.'
Tory Peter Lilley was among supporters of the cuts, linking the riots and looting to the economic turmoil sweeping the world's financial markets and eurozone debt crisis.
He said: 'They have one factor in common: a widespread belief that anyone can have anything they want without paying for it and without living within their means.'
The Prime Minister also appeared to pave the way for police to spray rioters with a semi-permanent dye which can be used to show they were at a particular place at a particular time.
'The police should look at all available technologies and keep abreast of all potential developments here and in other countries to make sure they arrest as many people as possible,' he said.
The Prime Minister answered questions from MPs in the Commons for about two hours 50 minutes before the Chancellor gave a statement on the economic crisis.
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