Sentences with phrase «such police powers»

These bills, which would grant such police powers as the ability to make warrantless arrests, are typically supported by all but a dozen or so legislators.

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«To continue to resist the making real of such an internationally credible police force, as many on the right in America have done, is more and more obviously a way of saying that now that we're in power we will use that power utterly for our own advantage.»

It comes in numerous designs such as a police car, a classic pink cruiser, a red shining race car, a hot rod with flames, and a flower power design.

Possible measures, such as the «stop and question» powers, needed to be carefully carried out to avoid a police state and ensure «that we protect people's liberties in a way that they don't feel it justifies an appeal to people to come in and support terrorism».

Speaking on the Gold Power Drive with Samuel Eshun, Lawyer David Annan noted that, the President by law is to consult the Council of State and the Police Council for advice before making such appointments, but there was no Council of State in place at the time he made the appointment.

He said this would mirror existing powers enabling the police to get hold of conventional forms of communications, such as letters and other correspondence, in criminal investigations if legally sanctioned.

Political backers included MPs who had first - hand experience of the perversity of police having the power to set bail conditions and lengths without even having enough evidence to make a charge such as Damian Green MP and my good friend Nigel Evans MP.

That coverage was based on a misunderstanding of the proposed changes, but we have revised the guidance to prevent such misunderstandings and ensure that police officers use the power properly.

«How can it be,» asks Max in that soft, urbane style, «that a foreigner sitting in New York can exert such power over British police and successive prime ministers?»

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

Such killings are becoming one too many, we hope the police would do all in their powers to bring the perpetrators to book.

He also routinely vetoes legislation to let various groups of local security guards such as employees of Port Chester's village court and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center be considered «peace officers» and have some powers akin to police officers; he's argued this status should not be granted piecemeal, but as part of a «comprehensive, State - wide, process.»

There can be no question of the authority of the State in the exercise of its police power to regulate the administration, sale, prescription and use of dangerous and habit - forming drugs, such as are named in the statute.

Ministers failed to increase the limit to 90 days last year, but on Saturday the head of the Metropolitan police, Ian Blair, said such powers would be welcomed.

Such a low turnout is sure to bring into question the legitimacy of the new commissioners, who will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set the priorities for police forces across England and Wales and will all be earning upwards of # 75,000.

All 43 police forces in England and Wales currently have the power to drug test people who have been arrested if they are suspected of using Class A drugs such as heroine or cocaine, but only 23 police forces currently use that power.

Among the items on the agenda was the Police Benevolent Association's request for higher - powered firearms, such as AR - 15 rifles.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

JFAN said in a statement issued today by its Coordinator, Dr Dada Popoola and made available to journalists online that it was highly disappointed that a governor like Fayemi, who came to power through the instrument of the rule of law could descend to such an ignoble level of using police to harass anyone for criticising him.

Racism in America can take the form of so much more than the «N» word, and here Oluo astutely dismantles issues such as police brutality, cultural appropriation and microaggressions, and the pervasive, poisonous power of racism and white supremacy.

The painting has an immediate visceral power; it speaks not only to the overt violence American (and English) police notoriously direct at black youth, but also to the closeted, pervasive nature of such violence.

You admit that what you are doing is attemtping to impose your values using the police power of the state, and you argue for such policy on that basis.

Passionate about all things technology - related, Rob has since worked with hundreds of local organizations such as the Vancouver Police Department, the BC College of Nurses, Columbia Power, General Paint, and Conair Aerospace to effectively leverage the Internet to achieve their goals.

This power allows the police to detain people for investigation «if there are reasonable grounds to suspect in all the circumstances that the individual is connected to a particular crime and that such detention is necessary.»

DLA Piper has also developed a legal empowerment programme that involves providing legal education modules to people from disadvantaged communities on areas of the law such as police stop and search powers and neighbourhood housing disputes, helping to improve individuals» knowledge of the law and their rights.

The police are allowed to ask for such things because of what is know as police power.

Such special state police officers shall... have the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon lands or structures owned, used or occupied by such college, university, or other institution or hospiSuch special state police officers shall... have the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense committed in or upon lands or structures owned, used or occupied by such college, university, or other institution or hospisuch college, university, or other institution or hospital.

Thus, police has no power to punish you for downloading, and even less power to shutdown such «downloader» websites.

Such a regulation can not be sustained as an exercise of police power upon the ground that economic security of the dairyman works for the sanitary security of the community by insuring both an adequate supply and a wholesome quality of a necessary food.

We have consistently fought against the introduction and normalization of exceptional powers such as preventive detention, and law enforcement powers for CSIS — arguing that the existing powers in the Criminal Code are strong, far - reaching and enable Canadian police to effectively conduct lawful surveillance, to effect arrests to prevent crimes including terrorist acts from being committed, and to collect evidence that can hold up in court to ensure convictions of the guilty.

I can not imagine that any such performance could constitutionally be punished or restrained, even though the police power of a State is now buttressed by the Twenty - first Amendment.

A position of authority can refer to those in formal positions of authority such as police officers, immigration officers, border patrol agents and those with positions of power in the government.

In cases where the accused occupies a position of power or authority (such as a teacher, police officer, parent, school counsellor, etc.) or the victim is in some way dependent on them, or in an exploitative relationship with them, they will be charged with sexual exploitation.

«At common law a police officer may carry out a «frisk» search of a person who has been lawfully arrested and the existence of reasonable and probable grounds is not a prerequisite to the existence of such a power.

In this day, when the motor vehicle is such an important part of our modern day living, when the use of the vehicle is so essential to both a livelihood and the enjoyment of life, this Court recognizes that the use of the public highways is a right which all qualified citizens possess, subject, of course, to reasonable regulation under the police power of the sovereign.

These rights protect us from arbitrary and unreasonable exercises of police power, such as illegal searches or unlawful intrusions into our privacy.

(9) The Independent Police Review Director, any employee in the office of the Independent Police Review Director, any investigator appointed under subsection 26.5 (1) and any person exercising powers or performing duties at the direction of the Independent Police Review Director shall preserve secrecy in respect of all information obtained in the course of his or her duties under this Act and shall not communicate any such information to any person except,

(b) to exercise such powers and perform such duties of the Independent Police Review Director as may be prescribed under paragraph 4.1 of subsection 135 (1).

He described... «the general power of the judge (which existed at common law and is enshrined in section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) to exclude any evidence relied on by the Crown... if its admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial that it ought not to be admitted».»

And to this end it may require the registration of such vehicles and the licensing of their drivers... This is but an exercise of the police power uniformly recognized as belonging to the States and essential to the preservation of the health, safety and comfort of their citizens.»

Under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005), s 60, HMRC now also has wider powers to conduct its own investigations into tax - related crimes, such as tax fraud.

A small number of people, such as police officers, judges, and prosecutors, take on the role of enforcing the power of the state.

policing agendas, such as zero - tolerance policing, powers to move people on and search on the spot, due to their traditional practice of gathering and socialising in public space, which increases their visibility to police, and subsequently the justice system