BIRTH OF POLICE STATE: UK POLICE GRANTED SWEEPING POWERS

BIRTH OF POLICE STATE: UK POLICE GRANTED SWEEPING POWERS
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July 28, 2013 at 2:46 am

The Birth of a Police State: UK Police to be Granted Sweeping New Powers….

Sorry to Say We Told You So….

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The UK Government is about to pass legislation which will make any behaviour perceived

to potentially ‘cause nuisance or annoyance’ a criminal offense. The Anti-Social Behaviour,

Crime and Policing Bill also grants local authorities, police and even private security firms

sweeping powers to bar citizens from assembling lawfully in public spaces.

Those who refuse orders under the new rules will face arrest, fines and even prison time.

The Ever Increasing Powers

Since the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which introduced Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs)

the government has invented and legislated for a litany of such orders covering everything from dog poo to

drug addiction, including but not limited to:

• Control Orders
• Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Orders
• Intervention Orders
• Crack House Closure Orders
• Premise Closure Orders; Brothel Closure Orders
• Gang Related Violence Injunctions
• Designated Public Place Orders
• Special Interim Management Orders
• Gating Orders
• Dog Control Orders
• Letter Clearing Notices
• Noise Abatement Orders
• Graffiti/Defacement Removal Notices
• Directions to Leave and Dispersal Orders.

The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill, which passed the committee stage of its progress

through the House of Commons on Monday 15th July, purports to simplify this legacy of New Labour’s

legislative promiscuity. In reality, it creates a series of wildly ambiguous, generic orders which grant officers

of the state and private sector even greater powers to issue tougher sentences, with fewer checks and

balances to protect citizens.

Being Annoying is now Illegal

The Bill introduces Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNAS) to replace ABSO’S.

Almost no one will be sad to say goodbye to ASBO’s. The orders, designed to allow police to tackle anti-social

behavior, simply became a means of criminalising youthful indiscretion – and eventually a means of criminalising

anything people found annoying. Some of the bizarre abuses of this power include:

• Stuart Hunt of Loch Ness brought to court 100 times since 2007 for breaching an ASBO preventing him from laughing, staring or slow hand clapping.
• Homeless, alcoholic and mentally ill Michael Gilligan given a 99 year ASBO rather than the welfare support that might have made a difference
• A profoundly deaf 17 year old girl given an ASBO and a jail sentence for spitting in the street
• A 13 year old banned from using the word ‘grass’ in England or Wales
• Manchester Council applied an ASBO to prevent a mobile soup kitchen from feeding the homeless
• Councils placing ASBOs on homeless people resulting in prison sentences for begging ‘earnestly and humbly’
• An 87 year old man was given an ASBO threatening a prison sentence if he was sarcastic to his neighbours. 

The ASBO has allowed the line between criminal behavior and annoying behavior to become hopelessly blurred –

and the IPNAs will only serve to increase the problem. We have seen the abuses permitted under ASBO legislation,

the test for which included wording to the effect that ASBOs could only be issued where an actual act of ‘harassment,

alarm or distress’ had occurred. IPNAs have a much weaker test, applicable where on the ‘balance of probabilities’ a

person has or might engage in behavior ‘capable of causing annoyance’ to another person.

How many times a day could this legislation apply to any of us?

Eating with our mouths open, talking too loudly into our phones in a public space, walking too slowly or

quickly or belching without saying ‘pardon me’. All of this may very well cause annoyance – but soon it

might well also be illegal.

The orders can be issued to anyone aged 10 or over (and we all know how well 10 year olds are at being annoying),

and there is no limit on how long an IPNA can be applied to a person for. A person could receive an IPNA aged 10 and

retain it their entire life.

Whereas an ASBO could only desist the subject from certain actions, the IPNA includes ‘positive obligations’ (p10). This

means the subject of an IPNA can be found in breach not simply for doing things they have been banned from doing,

but from not doing things that the IPNA states they must. This makes an IPNA much closer to probation and other

post-conviction arrangements than a civil order.

An IPNA can be applied for by Local Authorities, police, some transport bodies and some NHS authorities.

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