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UK Introduces Warrantless Detention

Posted by Unknown on from the cameras-are-for-hippies dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that the UK is introducing new laws tightening security around military bases, quoting the article "The Ministry of Defense is set to introduce "draconian" new powers to tighten security and limit access to US airbases in Britain implicated in mass surveillance and drone strikes, The Independent can reveal. ... Among the 20 activities to be banned within the controlled area are camping 'in tents, caravans, trees or otherwise,' digging, engaging in 'any trade or business' or grazing any animal. Also among the offenses, which can result in an individual being 'taken into custody without warrant,' is a failure to pick up dog waste or causing damage to 'any crops, turfs, plants, roots or trees'"

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  1. FUCK YOU SLASHDOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    THIS NEW DESIGN IS DOG SHIT

  2. confusion? by snakeplissken · · Score: 5, Interesting

    yes this is draconian but i don't think that 'taken into custody without warrant' means what i think the slashdot article implies it does. to me it means that these are now arrestable offences, obviously police can already arrest people without 'a warrant' otherwise no one could ever be arrested or detained on the street for any crime without a judge first being involved.

    officer: i saw you hit that woman
    scrote: fuck you
    officer: right sonny, just you wait here while i get a warrant so i can make you stay here,
    hey come back, i haven't got the warrant yet!...

    the problem here is that they shouldn't be arrestable offences not that police have the already existing power to arrest people

    snake

    1. Re:confusion? by pr100 · · Score: 5, Informative

      There might be a record of your arrest, but that's not what is normally understood by a criminal record, which is a list of the offences of which you've been convicted or accepted a caution in respect of.

  3. Re:Criteria too complicated by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The US has about 5% of the world's population. We also have about 25% of the world's prisoners.

    Land of the incarcerated, home of the feeble. Britain is our staunchest ally. Perhaps they're looking to us for incarceration performance, eh?

    --
    I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
  4. Re:Article needs fixing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    s/Ministry of Defense/Ministry of Truth/g

  5. Think about what this actually means. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Police have the powers to arrest for any offence. Although legally symbolic - i.e. the police don't legally need to be carrying one to carry out their duties - force procedure represents this power by constables in the UK being required to carry and show their warrant card.

    The meaning here of creating "warrantless offences" is that people without a warrant card, i.e. SOLDIERS, are given the power to arrest CIVILIANS on public land close to a military base.

    Is that clear enough for you? A soldier bored with watching you protest can just put you in a headlock and call the police.

  6. Re:This design is an aesthetic abortion by ElementOfDestruction · · Score: 5, Informative

    Feeble attempt to make the computer page look and feel the same as the mobile page. Stop. This madness has to stop.