MaverickNH
NES Member
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/01/30/nsearch230.xml
"Gordon Brown said a review of current powers would be made public next week, but promised it would lead to a reduction in the bureaucracy which police complain often makes them reluctant to pull suspects over...In just one police area in one year, they had to fill in 79,000 forms - that is 9,216 hours of valuable police time. The Prime Minister [said]: "Under this Government we are taking action to reduce bureaucracy in the police."
At first I thought the Brits were backsliding even more on personal rights and freedoms, but then I considered all the rights and freedoms 'temporarilly relinquished' after 9-11 in the US.
Either way, for a country that claims to have vastly diminished crime by essentially banning firearms, one wonders why the police need to have more power to stop and search people for weapons without reasonable cause. Interesting they that rightout say they would be stopping & searching more blacks and asians, as there is more crimes in those racial populations.
"Gordon Brown said a review of current powers would be made public next week, but promised it would lead to a reduction in the bureaucracy which police complain often makes them reluctant to pull suspects over...In just one police area in one year, they had to fill in 79,000 forms - that is 9,216 hours of valuable police time. The Prime Minister [said]: "Under this Government we are taking action to reduce bureaucracy in the police."
At first I thought the Brits were backsliding even more on personal rights and freedoms, but then I considered all the rights and freedoms 'temporarilly relinquished' after 9-11 in the US.
Either way, for a country that claims to have vastly diminished crime by essentially banning firearms, one wonders why the police need to have more power to stop and search people for weapons without reasonable cause. Interesting they that rightout say they would be stopping & searching more blacks and asians, as there is more crimes in those racial populations.