Sentences with phrase «using police powers»

Hundreds of proud citizens wearing forest green, touring all the city «s parks on horseback and all - terrain vehicles, using police powers and good will as part of a giant public relations initiative for the Chicago Park District and its beleaguered chief executive, Jesse Madison.

Jesus never taught that it was ethical to use the police power of government to force people to do things.

Pramilla Malick, leader of an Orange County citizens group that has fought the power plant, called the FERC official's decision «an unprecedented abuse of process and law,» and urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Basil Seggos, the state's environmental conservation commissioner, «to use the police powers of the state to protect our water and prevent any construction activity.»

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.

At this point in the law, it seems that the drone pilot has a right to be flying (in most situations) and the police will use police power to intimidate pilots to go elsewhere, or in this case find out who is filming for a private concern.

A state's right to use its the police power shouldn't be abrogated because Gonzalez wants executions where he doesn't deserve them.

Not exact matches

Under these circumstances, it may be possible for police to use their powers under PACE to seize and examine this information.»

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

I remember how excited my father, Joe, a New York City Police Officer, used to get by Ali's poise and power.

The use of high - powered semiautomatic rifles in recent mass shootings, including by Cruz, police say, and in last year's killing of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, has sparked calls to reinstate the 10 - year ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004.

ALL police officers have the power to use discretion when necessary.

Finally, there is the injustice of an ever - expanding and necrophilic militarism as violent uses of power and force whereby nonegalitarian relationships are defended, whether internally through various forms of police and surveillance force, or externally through massive military and espionage forces.

At home, sovereign states kill by the use of police power.

Where the situation becomes sinister is when one group attempts to police the activities of another, or where one Christian organization or leader uses their personal power or share of the market to prevent others, with whom they are not formally connected, from speaking freely and asking the hard questions.

«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.»

The police forces with the most disproportionate use of stop and search powers against black people were Dorset, Hampshire, Leicestershire and Wandsworth.

Ambode cited issues to be considered by the joint committee to include devolution of powers, Land Use Act, state policing, a review of the revenue allocation formula and according Lagos State a special status.

The protesters approach the police and forces of state power without the use of violence; indeed, there is no violence on either side.

The police will have their powers chipped away across multiple fronts, after Theresa May used the Queen's Speech to put forward a raft of tough measures against them.

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

The police are using the tougher closure powers.

They not only have the power to launch a probe, but the ability to use the State Police or a local law enforcement agency to conduct the investigation.

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.

The challenge for the government and the police is to ensure that these powers are used fairly and with the support of the public.

«I know that the Metropolitan Police are committed to using their powers to ensure communities and properties are protected.

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.

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

Let's see, a Governor who solicits prostitutes and uses the state police to do his political bidding... corruption isn't just about bribes — it's about the abuse of power.

They not only have the power to launch a probe, but the ability to use the State Police or a local law enforcement agency.

«Of course we need to support police, they have significant powers already which I support them in using.

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.

But as with all police powers, there is a temptation for them to be used in an ever - growing number of situations.

The proposals, which come with # 255,000 of new funding, will insist on police and local agencies using all the tools and powers available to them to tackle the seven per cent of persistent troublemakers who cause the most problems.

MPs have written to Kent police in protest at their use of stop - and - search powers at an environmental demonstration.

Liberty, which commissioned the poll from YouGov, fears that elected commissioners could pressure police to use their powers in ways which meets a political agenda, rather than serving the community as a whole.

The Lib Dems call for an urgent review of the powers leading to a more «sensitive and effective» use of stop and searching, «freeing up police to focus on counter-terrorism operations that actually work.»

«We have seen real progress with communities across the country making full use of the powers we have put in place with councils, police, courts and local people working in partnership to make neighbourhoods safer and better places to live,» Tony Blair said.

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.

«The fact that so many people have been stopped, and so few arrested, suggests that the powers are being used as part of standard policing techniques.»

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

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.

It is hoped that now that the police have taken their attacks to the members of the National Assembly may be the legislators will use their powers to bring about change in the police force that has become notorious for professional incompetence, indiscipline and grossly corrupt.

Mount Vernon — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced today that he's using his new power as a special prosecutor to investigate the death of a woman who died in police custody last week.

But then again, the police and security services already have the power to read your emails, tap your phone, plant hidden cameras and microphones in your house and intercept your internet use.

(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.)

New York's attorney general says he's using his new power as special prosecutor to investigate the death of a mother of eight last week in a police holding cell.

The governor says he will use his executive powers to remove 16 - and 17 - year olds from adult prisons, and appoint the attorney general for a one year term as a special prosecutor in police cases where a civilian is killed.

One source said «it's common knowledge» that police use license plate readers, biological and radiation detectors and high - powered weaponry, both in its counter-terrorism efforts and in conventional crime - fighting.

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.

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.