Sentences with phrase «give police powers»

«The people who say they're against this bill need to look victims of serious crime, terrorism and child sex offences in the eye and tell them why they're not prepared to give the police the powers they need to protect the public,» she said.

Today home secretary John Reid said it would give police the powers they needed to tackle the threat posed by terrorism, insisting: «We must defend our traditions and values against those who seek to abuse or undermine our way of life.»

Labour said giving police powers to access IP addresses should be accompanied by «appropriate oversight providing sufficient checks and balances».

-- Oneida nation police will be given police powers in Oneida County even when they're not on nation - owned land.

But this bill gives police power to take and search our phones after almost every fender - bender,» says Rashida Richardson, legislative counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Not exact matches

The Constitution gave the federal government the power to regulate interstate commerce but reserved for the states all «police powers» to regulate private economic transactions.

We have already said that we will give the police new powers, including new gang injunctions for young people and the right to remove face coverings, as well as considering new curfew powers.

Furthermore, states can't give their police the authority to arrest immigrants without warrant for being removable, because that's giving them more power than federal immigration officers (who normally need a warrant), and undermines the fact that Congress normally requires a warrant before making those arrests (increasing federal discretion).

Within days, networks of individuals can set up apps which give them power to avoid police or government initiatives, or organise their movements in a fluid, unpredictable way which the authorities will struggle to predict without technological intervention.

Mr Swire also warned that despite government claims that the changes would make life quieter and safer for local people by giving police new powers to shut down premises, communities were in reality being shut out of the system.

The police have always used the powers given to them for specific problems in a very catholic and generalist manner.

«The way we really police the procurement process is not necessarily giving the comptroller more power, because right now the comptroller of the state of New York has post audit ability,» Klein said.

«We are of great concern that this is the first time this is happening and that this matter needs to be addressed considering the importance of the powers of the constitution that gives investigative powers, also gives to us and that there is need for police to accept that they too are under constitution and they must obey that.

The councillor promised the newspaper he would control religious education, give more powers to police, and aim to regenerate farming and industry.

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking to give Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the permanent power of special prosecutor to pursue cases in which civilians die in interactions with the police.

Cuomo's criminal justice reforms have not always been embraced by local prosecutors, who have raised issues in the past to overhauling juvenile justice and an executive order giving the attorney general the power to investigate and prosecute cases in which civilians die in interactions with police.

Newly - elected police commissioners have been given far too much power over chief constables, an influential committee of MPs has found.

The order gave Schneiderman the power to conduct independent investigations in police encounters when, «in his opinion, there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his death.»

Police officials argued at the time that doing so would hamstring officers who, without arrest powers, could no longer compel those given tickets for minor crimes to divulge their real names.

Back in August, Soares» office had asked Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to take over the investigation into Ivy's death, based on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order giving Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in police - involved civilian deaths.

The one he created let the Legislature continue to police itself by giving appointees of its leaders the power to veto investigations into their members.

Speaking on the recent renouncement of cultism in the state by over 500 suspected cultists, the CP expressed happiness that the Bayelsa State government through the House of Assembly amended the anti - cultism law which gave the police certain powers in collaboration with the magistrate to make sure people who are involved in cultism, secret society and those who harbour them are brought to book.

Ministers hope to find a compromise that will allow genuine curators to collect legitimate firearms while giving police and enforcement agencies the power to remove black - market guns from the streets.

Since 1997, the government has given the police new resources and parliament has provided new legal powers to arrest and try terrorists.

Since that announcement, we have passed secondary legislation to enable the police to prosecute an extra 150,000 cases through to completion by giving them the power to continue to prosecute where a defendant does not turn up in court or pleads exceptional hardship.

«We want to give police and local authorities more powers to strip problem premises of licenses,» a Home Office spokesperson told the paper.

The poll found that by a 58 percent to 33 percent margin, New Yorkers would back giving Schneiderman the power of special prosecutor to probe other instances of police brutality after a grand jury chose to not indict a New York police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Police would be given powers to tow vehicles on private land when they are parked dangerously - blocking the entrance to a hospital, for example.

Labour will contest the police commissioner elections — they're too important to leave unchallenged — though we recognise inherent dangers in giving so much power to one individual.

Significant powers over health and social care and housing and policing are also being given to Manchester.

Thousands of motorists look set to lose their licence under new plans which will see the police given the power to issue on - the - spot fines and penalty points for careless driving.

It will see what powers it could give police to stop protestors covering their face with masks or balaclavas at protests.

Governor Cuomo announced an executive order for a Special Prosecutor that would give New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the power to prosecute police killings.

The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 made the Mayor the Police and Crime Commissioner for London; and the Public Bodies Act 2011 gave the Authority some development powers.

The proposal falls short of calls by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be given power to investigate the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of police.

Firstly, the view that police will begin to routinely use powers given to them for very specific purposes for areas we hadn't intended is substantially vindicated by the historical data.

So I can announce today that we will now legislate to give the police new powers to require foreign nationals to hand over their passports, and make them declare their nationality in court.

Cracking down on the ideology of Islamist extremism and all those who support it and giving the police and the authorities the powers they need to keep our country safe.

The next time the police pick you or someone you know just like that from the streets, know that you gave them that power.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman huddled with minority lawmakers at the governor's Midtown office Monday over his recent executive order giving Schneiderman special prosecutor powers in certain police - involved deaths of civilians.

«We are collaborating on the testing,» said Cuomo, who was in New York City to discuss with minority lawmakers his recent executive order, which gives the Attorney General special prosecutor powers in certain police - involved deaths of civilians.

That should be the work of the FEDs not the soldiers who put their lives to protect this nation... WTF is wrong with our nation???? Police's not supposed to be Armed force, yet they gave them baracks, Soldiers are not supposed to be around civilians yet there are baracks around civilians, Soldiers are not ment to pay POWER bills, Utilities of a whole, show me one country that does ask their soldiers to pay for powePOWER bills, Utilities of a whole, show me one country that does ask their soldiers to pay for powerpower????

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

Giving the «particulars» of the said error, the lawyer argued, «The powers given to the first appellant (the IGP) under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Nigeria Police Act, Laws of the Federation 2004, sufficiently make the «Special Joint Investigation Panel» lawful and supportable under the Nigerian criminal justice system.

A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Jimoh Moshood, on Sunday said the IGP has given the nod for three police mobile force units, high powered police investigation team, Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) to the north - central state.

The order gave Schneiderman the power to conduct independent investigations in fatal police encounters when, «in his opinion, there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his death.»

Mr. Schneiderman, a former state senator, said he would work with members of the Assembly and State Senate who have introduced various bills to give power to independent prosecutors to investigate cases where police use lethal force on unarmed civilians.

District Attorney David Soares has been urged by activists to take stand, but says Governor Andrew Cuomo's July executive order giving the state attorney general powers above those of local D.A.'s in civilian police shooting cases has stalled the case, which the administration disputes.

The latest version of the Investigatory Powers Bill has failed to clarify tricky issues like encryption and gives police and security services wide - ranging powers

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.