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201838
Wed, 08/17/2011 - 11:06
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Britain to Give Curfew Powers to Police for Further Suppression
TEHRAN (FNA)- In a new step to intensify suppressive measures against possible protests in Britain, London plans to give police new curfew powers that enables police to bar anyone from being in entire areas for a certain period of time if there is a risk of public disorder.
Police could be handed new curfew powers to clear the streets of rioters, British Home Secretary Theresa May said.
The Home Office are discussing how to give forces the powers they need to tackle future disturbances, Mrs May added.
Officers should be given clearer guidance on public order policing, she stated.
The new powers could let the police clear large urban areas of people during breakdowns of public order.
Councils can currently apply for dispersal orders, where police can move groups of youths who are causing a nuisance. Curfews can also be imposed on individual offenders.
"Under existing laws, there is no power to impose a general curfew in a particular area, and, while curfew conditions can be placed on some offenders as part of their Asbo, criminal sentence or bail conditions, there are only limited powers to impose them on somebody under the age of 16," she said.
"These are the sort of changes we need to consider."
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests later spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
Police could be handed new curfew powers to clear the streets of rioters, British Home Secretary Theresa May said.
The Home Office are discussing how to give forces the powers they need to tackle future disturbances, Mrs May added.
Officers should be given clearer guidance on public order policing, she stated.
The new powers could let the police clear large urban areas of people during breakdowns of public order.
Councils can currently apply for dispersal orders, where police can move groups of youths who are causing a nuisance. Curfews can also be imposed on individual offenders.
"Under existing laws, there is no power to impose a general curfew in a particular area, and, while curfew conditions can be placed on some offenders as part of their Asbo, criminal sentence or bail conditions, there are only limited powers to impose them on somebody under the age of 16," she said.
"These are the sort of changes we need to consider."
Unrest has rocked Britain in a scale unprecedented in 30 years following the police's killing of black male Mark Duggan in a shooting spree in the London suburb of Tottenham on August 4.
Tension erupted on August 6, when a few hundred people gathered outside a police station in Tottenham to protest the killing.
The protests later spread to major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has threatened to call in the army if protests persisted, and analysts believe that his threat displays that the White Hall's claim about being an advocate of human rights and freedom of expression is nothing but an empty, boastful remark.
