New powers to fight sex offences
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Police are to get new powers to search the homes of known sex offenders.
Officers will be able to seek a warrant to carry out "risk assessments" on
properties under measures due to come into force over the next two months.
Current laws allow police to make occasional checks on a registered sex
offender at their address. But they may only carry out a search if they
suspect a crime has been committed.
The new "preventative" powers will allow them to apply to a magistrate for a
search warrant if they see something there that causes concern, such as
children's toys.
Laurence Taylor
And unless the suspect is to be charged with unlawful posession of a
teddy bear, even more police time and public money will be wasted.
I can't decide who are the biggest idiots, Blair and Brown or the
wierdos who now seem to run the NSPCC.
Actually, there's no point in such "new" powers anyway. All the police
has to do is tell the beak "we think he's collecting child porn" and
the warrent will be issued pronto.
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LAurence
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Mike_B
Laurence Taylor <see-h...@nospam.plus.com> writes
>Actually, there's no point in such "new" powers anyway. All the police
>has to do is tell the beak "we think he's collecting child porn" and
>the warrent will be issued pronto.
Ah but in line with their wish to be able to do anythign to anybody
anytime they feel like it for no real reason, they want the power to
search without having any suspicion of a crime being committed. Today
its pedos and terrorists, tomorrow its you and me.
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Mike_B
Scott
Exactly and the minister practically said as much on radio 4 when it was
announced. When questioned about the civil liberties implications they said
'the law would only apply to those on the sex offenders register and there was
no intention of extending it *at present*'.
That's as good as saying they're going to extend it as soon as they can
manufacture an artificial crisis to panic the sheeple.
4s00th
the nym 'Laurence Taylor' in alt.support.boy-lovers? Your email
address is the same.
On Feb 9, 6:57?am, Laurence Taylor <see-head...@nospam.plus.com>
wrote: