UK Police to Get Greater Repressive Powers After Riots
Submitted on October 18, 2011
By Julie Hyland - 18 October 2011
Britain’s police are to be given significant new public order powers, according to proposals outlined in a Home Office consultation document. They include plans to declare specific places “no go areas”, with a police superintendent empowered to instruct people to leave “to prevent or address serious disorder”...Other measures under consideration include giving police powers to force people to remove face coverings and impose individual curfews.
