Saturday, November 12, 2005
Police and politics
Police pressured into politics!
It is getting a little easier to see through the muddied waters created by Tony Blair and Charles Clarke this week in advance of the debate over the Terrorism Bill. It is now looking as though the Tories were perfectly right to voice concerns over the politicisation of the Police forces after Charles Clarke's admission that he had asked the Association of Police Chief Officers (ACPO) to write to MPs in their police authority area, making themselves or relevant senior police officers available to MPs, of all parties, who wanted to know their local police attitude on these issues. - Read more here
This was a desperate move from desperate men wanting to force their own views through Parliament. To use ACPO in this manner opened the door to accusations that the government was politicising the traditional neutrality of the Police force. This country relies on the impartiality of it's Crown servants to administer and police the laws of the land without hinderance from the legislature. If we are to move to a situation where the Police forces act at the bidding of the ruling political party of the day, then we can be reasonably compared to Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
Tony Blair extolled us all not to allow the terrorists to change the British way of life, yet, hypocritically, he has tried twice in the same week to do just that!
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