Security guards and town hall workers are being armed with sweeping police-style powers, it has emerged.
For a few hundred pounds, state and private sector employees can receive Home Office accreditation.
This allows them to hand out fines for a raft of offences, from dropping litter to riding a bike on the pavement.
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They can also stop cars to check their tax discs, seize alcohol from underage drinkers and demand people’s names and addresses.
The hope is that they will free up rank-and-file officers from having to perform these unpopular tasks. The uniformed, badged army of snoopers will become a vital part of the ‘extended police family’, ministers say.
But privacy campaigners have dubbed them Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s ‘Stasi’ after the East German secret police.
Phil Booth of NO2ID said: ‘This is a sinister move towards a Stasi snooper state in which jobsworths are devolved the powers of the police – including the right to demand you identify yourself.’
Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve added: ‘This is a consequence of the Government’s obsession with policing on the cheap as well as their staggering complacency towards the extension of surveillance by an increasing amount of different bodies.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:57 am
One more step towards NWO domination of the “sheeple”
August 27th, 2008 at 5:48 am
writemalkin@gmail.com THIS IS HUGE EMAIL MICHELLE MALKIN THIS WOMAN WANTS AMERICANS IN FEMA CAMPS SHE IS A GOV SPONSORED WHORE AND DANGEROUS THAT IS HER OFICIAL WEBSITE EMAIL HER AND TELL HER SHE IS A MARKED WOMAN RECREATE 68 ARE MEDIA WHORES TO WE NEED TO EXPOSE THESE SHILLS
August 27th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Like the late great John Lennon said: Each country deserves the Number 1 it gets.
The British (including me) must have wanted all of this or else this sick bunch of retards, wouldn’t be where they are.
And as usual we’ll switch on the telly, eat our TV dinners, drink our watered down and chemically enhanced beer, say yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir and hope it will all go away by magic.
What a bunch of sad fucks we’ve become.
It shames me for being part of the Human Race.
I think I’ll come back as a cockroach next time. At least they look after their own.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Jacqui Smith is a complete idiot. This is the woman who visited her constituency while wearing a stab vest despite being surrounded by police armed with Heckler and Koch MP5’s.
The PM wants to look tough – just like Tony B. Liar. Unfortunately for him, he’s the son of a preacher and more than a bit of a wimp. It always makes me smile when all those god-fearing politicians ask us to follow their god yet are completely unwilling to follow the most basic of the ten commandments. They line their pockets, cheat on their wives and worst of all, invade sovereign countries on a false premise and kill innocent women and children. Yet no-one is held to account!
Now Jacqui wants to hand out police-like powers to council officials who can’t even get local services to work properly! It strikes me as achieving two goals – extra revenue for local government so central government can make cut-backs and looking tough on terrorism/anti-social behaviour. Criminalising the population only makes governments safer. They can do whatever they please and when they’re questioned about their actions, they can safely say ‘These people are criminals’.
The day will come when if you’re not directly employed by government, you’ll be a suspect. We really are all in this together, whichever part of the world you live in. Here in Scotland, we have an option. Independence! If we’re not part of the UK, we won’t be governed by Westminster. If we’re not governed by Westminster, any anti-terror laws they pass will not apply to Scots. Unless, of course, you’re a Scottish Prime Minister in an English Parliament. Oh, the irony
August 27th, 2008 at 7:37 am
This is a good thing. The streets in some areas have become playgrounds for drunken yobs. People have no respect for the place where they live, often treating it like a rubbish dump.
The British public have long been calling for something to be done about all this, and when the govt does, they then shout “big brother state”. Make your mind up assholes, you can’t have it both ways.
Most of this is aimed at youngsters by the look of it, so what you worried about? If certain parents can’t bring up their children correctly then this sort of action is required.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:01 am
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Most of this is aimed at youngsters by the look of it, so what you worried about? If certain parents can’t bring up their children correctly then this sort of action is required.”
We are ‘worried’ about a massive police state stifling dissent and free speech. This is the same argument as ‘if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?’ In Soviet Russia, people were taken to prison for simply mentioning the name of Joseph Stalin.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
The public haven’t long been calling for this at all. Many know full well the state of society is breeding monsters, but the mass media portrays the opposite, it’s called propoganda.
The problem is Government and Corporate Psychopaths controlling society and sheperding it into a Corprate fascist technocracy.
It’s not incompetence, it’s the age old dream of world domination.
They are all sick in the head Gangsters, the Police are are an expanding Mob of Enforcers, the Courts are Con Artists and Finance is fraud.
Can’t have it both ways. What a Turkey!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:26 am
We, in America, are next in line for this type of disgusting stasi behavior from those that are supposed to serve and defend. England is simply an experiment to see if this type of evil will be digested by the population. Evidently, while it appears that the English are digesting it, I think that their elections are rife with fraud, the people are probably understandably frightened out of their wits and these vicious monsters are using this fear to their supreme tactical advantage. Apathy and fear get you nowhere. There is a time for peaceful civil disobedience and IT IS NOW AMERICA!!! Stand up now before maggots like Jaqui Smith tyrannize us into utter slavery!!!! It is time to take on the media like Alex Jones did with Malkin in publicly shaming her. They all need to be shamed. If we all did what Alex did, I think we would start seeing some positive changes. Remember, it is the media who is our greatest enemy, because they allow this evil to flourish! I’m thinking about getting a bullhorn.
Maybe we all need to get a bullhorn, yesterday!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I would say that it may be time for Scotland and Wales to separate themselves from being a part of Britain (in the political sense if not the physical sense). England has gone just plain wacky.
In England, a groupthink of mental illness has become the current social vogue of its government.
And in the USA, it may be time for the States to secede from the current federal government. The federal government was and is supposed to be the employee of the 50 sovereign States, and not the other way around. Washington D.C. can be given the pink slip at any time and a new federal capitol established elsewhere. We hired a federal government to act as a mediator and go-between for the 50 sovereign States and not to give itself airs and affectations that it’s our slave master. The federal government serves us, we do not serve the federal government.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Time to revisit the birth and history of nazi Germany. The most pertinent parallel this time was in how Hitler only made amenable parts of his nation hard-core nazi. Other places (many of the large cities) had a much lighter touch, because the population there was much more sophisticated.
The same is happening in the UK. The stasi are mostly deployed in areas that always vote Labour. These are the s**t-holes of the UK, and the government can safely experiment to the maximum with its social engineering and police-state policies. Many schools in these areas, for instance, are run as ‘private’ entities by Blair loyalists, and their regimes are 100% fascist. Those pupils that find such obscenities ‘amusing’ are marked for fast-tracking in Blair’s power structure.
The (mostly ‘white’) chattering classes of the UK are the ultimate brain-dead sheeple, and it is they who such up every piece of Blair propaganda crap in the tabloids and BBC news broadcasts. While, as a group, their every quality is of the lowest (especially educational and moral), they are the ones howling for the ‘reforms’ that step-by-step make the UK the most deadly cancer ever witnessed on this planet.
BY THE WAY, BEWARE THE SCUMBAGS THAT INFEST SITES LIKE THIS SUGGESTING BLAIR, AND HIS TEAM, ARE ‘IDIOTS’. This is the oldest trick in the book. Get the sheeple to throw harmless insults at their masters, knowing that this pointless act will sate their desire to act on their frustration. Blair NEVER EVER wants anyone calling him what he is, a mass murdering psychopath whose every act has been a carefully planned and executed crime against humanity. Like the serial killer that lures young women to a finality of torture and murder, Blair lives for the horrors he can inflict on the greatest number of innocent people.
Those he surrounds himself with have only one common criteria- a mutual interest in this blood-lust. Jacqui Smith is of identical type to those women that used to delight in thinking of new ways to torture the inmates of death-camps. What amazes me is that you all KNOW such people exist, from history, and the records of your courts, but you are so bloody reluctant to comprehend that in an age of terrible choices, your ‘politicians’ will be the worst psychopaths your nightmares can imagine.
Know this. Blair was responsible for ‘persuading’ Georgia that they could safely take on Russia. Blair also knew that Putin would smash Georgia in response. Why does anyone seek to set the first domino in motion?
August 27th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Vein – you do know that Tony Blair isn’t Prime Minister anymore don’t you?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
LarryDavid mate you do know thats the goverments doing all the crime the judges letting people off with small sentances and the human right act its all about getting people to think o my god its out of control what you would not have singed up to 10 years ago you will be only to happy to accept in a years time dont you get it the policy makers allways get what they want if crimes up education is down and the hospitals are all bad it is bye desing
August 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
What’s wrong with watching your neighbors? We in America already work with the police to run scum out of our neighborhoods. We get to define who the scum is, as long as the police back us, and they turn their heads as we find sneaky and ever more high tech ways to keep an eye on the scum, and “motivate” them to leave.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Thats all I need to see. Untrained rent-a-cops roaming the streets. As security guards these people have a job in the private sector to provide a service to their employer. Are we to assume that this is to be a form of private police force put on the street. Police are trained personnal. When these auxilliary police, lets call them, screw up, who assumes liability for their actions. While some security personnel are sometimes off-duty officers, a lot are not and I loathe the thought of untrained gung-ho rent-a-cops on the street.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:49 am
NeighborhoodWatch – dude , i’ll tell you what’s wrong with watching your neighbours ; get a fucking life ! sure , there are drug dealers and thieves and general scum of all kinds everywhere . but we’re not talking about them are we ? we’re talking about evil litter-bugs or illegally parked terrorists or , God forbid , thought criminals who have the temerity to openly spread their message of hate . if you are too dumb to realise that this is clearly aimed at you , then you deserve everything you’re shortly going to get . you suck dude .
January 16th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
and another thing ! for the last few months i have been recieving bills from my local council which it is impossible for me to have incurred . this fact , however , has not stopped them from , on two seperate occassions , threatening me with court action to evict me . if things were different i might well have laughed in their face and wished them good luck . but my wife suffers from bi-polar disorder and is prone to severe anxiety attacks . as you can probably imagine , the letters we have been recieving from our local council have done nothing to improve her state of mind . look , here’s my point . if they can’t get a simple thing like that right , how in Gods name do you think they’ll get it right when given , what ammounts to , police powers ? the slavish , zombie – like minds of these bureacratic idiots tell them that if the computer says it’s so then it must be so , even when glaringly obvious evidence to the contrary is offered . trust me people , even with the most altruistic of intentions , this is a really , really bad idea .