Outrage at Secret Probe Into 47,000 Innocent Air Travellers

Police secretly investigated the travel habits, family, friends and backgrounds of 47,000 innocent people last year after they bought plane tickets to fly into and out of Britain. The intrusiveness has provoked fury among civil liberties campaigners and now may be stopped by Britain’s new coalition Government.

The flyers were singled out by the ‘terrorist detector’ database, introduced by Labour, monitoring millions of British tourists and other travellers.

Checks included scrutiny of the police national computer, financial records and analysis of ‘known associates’ before people were cleared for travel.'

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Police Staff 'Hired' Out to Supermarkets and Universities

Forces across the country earned at least £17 million between them last year by providing staff to the private sector.

Police chiefs last night admitted "partnerships" are needed to help maintain budgets in an ever tighter economic climate.

Forces have been told they must find savings of more than £500 million a year on the national budget by 2014.

The majority of the staff being "hired" out are police community support officers which will raise fresh questions over their role and effectiveness.'

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Talk Show Phone in Discussing the New 'Super Tasers'

Talk show phone in. Caller talked about the creeping police state. He also mentioned Policing by consent, the fact that police are just collecting money and working for profit. He also managed to get in TPUC.ORG all with the support of the host. What a great human being she was.

Police Officers Sent on Hypnosis Courses in the 'New Frontier in UK Policing'

Officers are being encouraged to sign up to a course by Tom Silver, who is better known as a 'celebrity hypnotherapist' on American chat shows, in an attempt to gain more information from suspects.

The course will teach students 'cutting edge techniques', including an introduction into Electroencephalography (EEG) and will be paid for out of police coffers, according to respected industry magazine Police Review.'

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Police Stop and Search Section 44 Terrorism Act - Photography - I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist

Border Patrols to Keep Criminals out of Lancashire

Criminals from Liverpool and Manchester have been warned by police in Lancashire: "Stay out of our county."
From today police are stopping and quizzing motorists on routes from Merseyside and Greater Manchester into Lancashire.

They are "locking down" roads as part of an operation to thwart travellers who commit robberies and burglaries in the county.

Offenders will be stopped at Lancashire's borders using all available resources, including firearms officers, motorway officers, dog patrols and the Air Support Unit.'

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Criminal Checks for All Sixth Formers

Every teenager is likely to face a criminal record check under plans for all young people to take part in compulsory community service.'

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Police in £9m Scheme to Log 'Domestic Extremists'

Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.

The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor "domestic extremists", the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if they have not committed a crime.'

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EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor 'Abnormal Behavior'

The European Union is developing a 21st century panopticon, a beast surveillance system that critics describe as “Orwellian,” “sinister,” and “positively chilling,” that would collate data from numerous sources, including surveillance cameras and personal computers, in order to detect “abnormal behavior” across the entire continent.

In a broader sense, this is part of the move towards creating a pan-European federal police force, where information and powers are shared as part of a centralized system. It is also a giant step towards the creation of a European CIA tasked not with keeping tabs on foreign enemies, but spying on its own population.

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Girls Aged Six and Eleven 'Stopped and Searched by Police Using Anti-Terror Powers'

Two police officers are under investigation after they allegedly stopped and searched a six-year-old girl using anti-terrorism powers.
The plain-clothed officers are also accused of carrying out a stop and search on an 11-year-old girl and her father, who were with the six-year-old.

A complaint was made after the trio were stopped as they walked towards a bus station in South London.'

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