The always excellent Curious Hamster presents his analysis and opinion on this issue.
The fact that the police want a 90 days detention period has been repeated ad nauseum by Blair and Blair. As regular readers may know, this doesn't cut much mustard with me. I suspect I've never explicitly stated why that is...I couldn't agree more with this. Government should of course listen to the views of the police and take them into account but the police should not be dictating government policy.
The police are charged with protecting us against terrorists. Their focus is, as it should be, on preventing terrorist acts and capturing terrorists. For understandable reasons they have a very narrow focus on the problem.
Tags: politics, terrorism
