The House of Commons today will vote upon the government’s proposal to extend the detention period without charge by the police of terror suspects allowed from 14 days to 90 days.
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…
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.
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.
