Suppose that there is a big demonstration in London with a couple of thousand people on Whitehall all marching down towards Parliament Square carrying sleeping bags. Suppose that it looks to a police officer that they may well want to spend the night somewhere in the vicinity of Parliament. It does not mean that they are going to do it every day, or every week or whatever; they are not going to put up tents or anything. What would happen in those circumstances? Would the police simply ignore it? Or would they somehow find some excuse under the proposed legislation to say, ““We are warning you, you cannot do it””. Then, if they breach that, an argument breaks out on the streets between the police and the demonstrators.
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Campbell-Savours
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 16 June 2011.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill.
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