Sentences with phrase «by policing minister»

The NCND line is developed by policing minister Nick Herbert, who rejected the idea that banning certain actions, such as undercover police having sex with their targets.

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The government was urged to do so by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police last year, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying at the time he would consider it.

Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters the allegations were of a historic nature and investigations by police had started «some time ago».

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

It follows that the minister may be forced to violate the sanctity of the confessional by testifying at the police station, in a pretrial hearing, in court, before a grand jury or even before the legislature.

Chaired by State President P.W. Botha, the SSC expands and contracts at the whim of the leadership from a central core of the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, police, justice and their lieutenants.

Russia, whose police authorities were praised by Van Praag for their response after the Marseille trouble, was represented by Deputy Minister of Sport Natalia Baryshnikova.

This was disingenuous and self - serving, but it revealed not only the familiar trope of the disaffected young that the police are their enemy, but also a consistent world view in which Charlie Hebdo had declared war on Muslims, and had to be «neutralisé», in the euphemism employed by French ministers during the crisis.

The former deputy prime minister was criticised by South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner for his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.

Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern also praised last night's «landmark» decision by the party's Ard Fheis to end its 86 - year opposition to policing in the region.

The comments by the minister follow recent display of uncouth behavior displayed by some NPP supporters who stormed the police station of Karaga and Sissala West — thus freeing their colleagues in the process.

Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, was questioned by police investigating the cash - for - honours row, it has emerged.

The recent unhappy arrest of a Conservative shadow minister, the searching of his parliamentary office by anti-terrorist police and the seizure of his IT equipment and files, compounds a number of recent episodes of unhappiness about collusion between the police and the Home Secretary, and about the role of the Speaker and the Serjeant at Arms.

The prime minister has cut 21,000 police officers, and police budgets have been cut by # 500m in real terms since 2015.

This duty is nonetheless tempered by the constitutional expectation that chief constables and commissioners are not operationally controlled by ministers and that all police activity should be politically neutral.

There were similar suggestions that Prime Minister John Major provided President George H.W. Bush with information held by MI5 and the police in Britain on the young William Clinton, dating from the latter's time as a student at Oxford.

Ms Rudd said she made the «difficult decision», supported by Prime Minister Theresa May, because «ultimately there were no deaths or wrongful convictions» resulting from the conduct of South Yorkshire Police.

In addition there's been a solitary unsubstantiated policy announcement by the deputy prime minister in January 2011, and one consultation, about six months ago, angled towards promoting public order and police powers.

People who fail to pay fines enforced by the courts or police will face a tougher range of penalties, ministers will announce today.

The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced «entirely».

He was the source for the Sun's headline «The Truth», which sought to blame the crowd rather than the policing of the event for the deaths and led to what prime minister David Cameron described as a «double injustice» suffered by the victims» families.

«I went there because I wanted a proof of the fact that the site was just fenced and there was a heap of sand there as Nana Addo was claiming... I went there with the MP of Salaga, with the Regional Minister and with the Police Department that was escorting the Regional Minister and we filmed the whole place and that is the story we put out for people to know and for Nana Addo to know that if they are relying on information by his propagandists then he is threading on dangerous grounds; because what we saw there was an exact opposite of what he sought to portray in his true state of the nation's address and what we saw vindicated the President's assertion that there was a 60 - bed hospital construction in Salaga.»

The Interior Minister was speaking at the regional commanders» conference organized by the Ghana Police Service with support from UKIAD and DFID ahead of the December elections.

John Reid said the minister, who is now in charge of policing, had been «a stalwart» over the past few weeks, in which the immigration and nationality directorate (IND) was hit by a series of embarrassing revelations.

«It is wrong for the home secretary and the prime minister to try to take the credit for tough and correct action taken by the police while at the same time trying to pass the buck for any criticisms back to them,» commented shaodw policing minister Vernon Coaker.

Disgraced former Cabinet minister David Laws could be the subject of an investigation into his expenses claims by the police, according to reports.

Two government ministers are among those questioned by police investigating the cash for honours row, reports suggest.

A prime minister was interviewed by the police, for the first time in British history.

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Tony Lloyd, the former Stretford MP who stepped down to become Greater Manchester police and crime commissioner and was later beaten by Andy Burnham for the nomination to be Greater Manchester mayor, has been made a shadow housing minister.

You may not find it unusual for a man to have his head shot off in the London Underground by the police, or for an Opposition shadow minister to be arrested by counter terrorism police under terrorism legislation, or for Parliamentary offices to be entered and searched by police, 10.31.

A man has been charged by police after a shoe was hurled at Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University.

Home Office minister Baroness Browning said too many members of the public felt «let down» by their police forces, prompting the need for change.

Conservative leader David Cameron said: «It's obviously a serious matter when a serving prime minister is interviewed twice by police but I think we must wait for the outcome of the inquiry and that's certainly what I'm going to be doing.»

«When the prime minister was questioned the first time there was sort of a real earth tremor that went through politics because this was the first time a serving prime minister was questioned by police.

The prime minister, who was himself interviewed by police as a witness, said today that he was accustomed to the «periodic storms» of politics, although he insisted that he was not underestimating the damage it was doing to his and the party's reputation.

Idirisu said that on receiving information on the abduction, the state's commissioner of police, Abubakar Sadiq - Bello, mobilised policemen, led by the deputy commissioner in charge of operations to search for the abducted former minister.

The prime minister's comments come after leaks of an independent report into the killing by police of an innocent Brazilian last summer, suggest it will severely criticise Ian Blair.

Effort by our correspondent to speak with the deceased brother, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo, a former police affairs minister, proved abortive.

He interviewed Tony Blair several times - on each occasion prompting a slew of front - page headlines and reams of column inches discussing the fact a sitting prime minister was being questioned by police.

The prime minister followed Jeremy Corbyn on the Channel 4 News / Sky News «Battle for Number 10» programme and was challenged by members of the public on reductions to police numbers, the Conservative plans for social care, and cuts to school funding.

The prime minister's confession that he rode the horse loaned to Rebekah Brooks by the Metropolitan police is unlikely to escalate into any form of «horsegate».

Former Labour minister Chris Bryant raised a point of order demanding the Speaker write to police himself, on the basis that MPs» security had been affected by hacks into their mobile phones.

Home Office minister Tony McNulty acknowledged there was «still much more work to be done», but noted there were 23,000 fewer robberies committed last year than five years ago, partly due to new initiatives carried out by police.

Last week Mr Blair was interviewed as a witness to the inquiry, becoming the first ever serving prime minister to be questioned by police as part of a criminal investigation.

The review recommendations can be overturned by ministers but security services and police have so far won their argument that there is no alternative to control orders.

Meanwhile, the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has urged the police to work hard to correct the largely held perception of corruption held against them by the public.

«Modern slavery is on the increase but under Theresa May's watch, the police and Border Force have been cut and her government cut local authorities by over 40 %,» Sarah Champion, the shadow minister for preventing abuse, said.

Herbert, the former minister for policing and criminal justice, said the government needed to be careful not to be swayed by the most hardline Brexiters and warned that the jury is still out on the performance of Johnson, the foreign secretary, Fox, the trade secretary, and Davis, the Brexit secretary.

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