Police Retain Powers Under Proposal
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By Charles Rabin, The Miami Herald  Feb. 15--A significantly watered-down version of a proposed ordinance to strip Miami-Dade Police of powers to investigate corruption at County Hall passed a key committee Thursday after being endorsed by the mayor and police director.
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Proposals to allow police to stop and question anyone in the UK under new anti-terror laws are criticised.
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A passenger as well as a driver has the right to challenge the legality of a police officerâs decision to stop a car.
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New measures to fight crime, terror and drugs are at the heart of the UK Government's plans for the next year.
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The government will again try to push through powers to detain mentally ill people who have not committed crimes.
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A document calls for an independent group that could block hirings and firings and conduct investigations.
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"We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."  British police could get powers to stop and question anyone in the UK under proposed tough new anti-terror laws. via Boston Today
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The Government has stopped short of endorsing two of the main recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry to restrict doctors&#39; access to controlled drugs.
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The British and Irish Governments are considering tabling their own proposals to break the power-sharing deadlock.
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Proposals aimed at breaking the political stalemate are expected to be handed to the DUP and Sinn Fein.
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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 7 September  Citizens' Radio will resume broadcasting in defiance of the law, chief organizer Tsang Kin-shing vowed yesterday, just a week after police took most of its equipment in a raid.
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Chief Constable Hugh Orde makes his decision on the future of the full-time police reserve.
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Federal funding for the grant program that has helped hire thousands of community police officers across the country may be drying up. After several years of declining financial support, the Bush administration proposed no funding for that hiring program and others like it for the next fiscal year.
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Residents of the nation's capital would be able to own handguns and other firearms under a House-passed bill acclaimed by its supporters as a victory for Second Amendment rights but deplored by District of Columbia officials concerned about increased violence.
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Police officers are urging ministers to come up with a blueprint for the future direction of policing.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported.
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Radical plans to make police more accountable to their communities are to be unveiled on Tuesday.