Programme for Govt. More cops with more powers.

national | politics / elections | other press Friday June 15, 2007 23:20 by Casement Fan

The Justice section of the new program for government as published by the greens includes some choice encroachments on civil liberties.

*Expand Garda powers to issue "restriction orders"...to restrict named persons from travelling to or from certain areas...
*Require all mobile phones to be registered with name, address and proof of identity...
*...a nationawide CCTV rollout in all major county towns
*The creation of ASBATs or Anti-Social Behaviour Action Teams in each local authority area.
*16 000 Guards by 2012
*Introduce conditions governing the use by a suspect of the garda interview video. Contravening these will be a criminal offense. (whatever that means)

And lots more, its available to download at the link