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FT.com – The police, and the state, are out of control


Opinion from the FT: The police are out of control. So is the government. We can only conjecture as to what possessed the senior officers who raided the homes and parliamentary office of Damian Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman. Yet their disdain for political process spoke eloquently to the authoritarian culture of our times. read more | digg story

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de Menezes: Coroner rules out unlawful killing verdict


The coroner at the inquest of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police on the London Underground, ruled out a verdict of unlawful killing today. Sir Michael Wright told the jury to set aside the emotional pleas of the Brazilian electrician’s family and record either an open verdict or a finding of lawful killing. read more | digg story

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The six facts causing Tories alarm about Damian Green


Mobile phone seized; parliamentary computer seized; police aggressive at the Parliamentary “crime scene”; flat searched with wife and daughters at home; up to 20 counter terrorist police involved; Cameron informed of search as the police “marched up the steps” of Parliament. David Davis: For five years I have avoided using the phrase ‘police state’. But the sort of things going on here is what you expect in a police state, a banana state. This is the most extraordinary event of […]

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Damian Green arrest worrying for democracy – David Cameron


From the Guardian: The Conservative leader said that it was “a worrying stage in our democracy” if shadow ministers could not release information in the national interest. “If this had happened in the 1930s, Churchill would have been arrested,” said Cameron, in a reference to the way Winston Churchill used leaked information to support his campaign for Britain to rearm against Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Nine counter-terrorist police were used to make the arrest. See also: conservatives.com; The Telegraph; The Times; […]

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The Guardian, 2005: Britain ‘sliding into police state’


Completing the Political Compass Iconochasms quiz led me to a 2005 article in the Guardian: George Churchill-Coleman, who headed Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist squad as they worked to counter the IRA during their mainland attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, said Mr Clarke’s proposals to extend powers, such as indefinite house arrest, were “not practical” and threatened to further marginalise minority communities. Mr Churchill-Coleman told the Guardian: “I have a horrible feeling that we are sinking into a police […]

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Do not play politics with us, police chiefs say after Blair


From The Times: Ken Jones, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said that senior officers were extremely concerned that Sir Ian Blair’s sudden departure from Scotland Yard had “fundamentally altered the perception of policing independence”. I would have thought that the principles of policing were a matter for politicians: there’s something about the root of the word, isn’t there? Of course policemen must have day-to-day independence, but when I look at the Peelian Principles of policing and this […]

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BBC: UK’s top policeman forced to resign


And l wish him well in his new career, provided it is not as a commentator. See also: Dominic Grieve MP: Sir Ian Blair’s resignation “the right decision” Mark Field MP on ConservativeHome. The Times: Boris Johnson forces Sir Ian Blair to quit as police chief Sir Ian is entitled to a full police pension. On the commissioner’s £240,000 salary that is estimated to be worth about £160,000 per year. The Telegraph: Met police chief Sir Ian Blair forced out […]

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Telegraph: “Police will keep driving records for five years”


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According to the Telegraph: Police plan to map all journeys made by drivers on major roads and store the data for five years. A national network of roadside cameras will be able to read 50 million number plates each day enabling officers to reconstruct the movements of motorists. In one of his satirical novels, Terry Pratchett observes: The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere. I’m pretty sure he’s […]

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Met police chief Sir Ian Blair dismisses job threat claim


Sir Ian Blair fights for his career. It’s all go for senior policemen at the moment! read more | digg story

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Chief constable attacks Labour


A chief constable has accused the government of introducing policies which have made the job of policing “more difficult”. read more | digg story

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