UK Police madness by Claudia Sonea

After failed car bombings in the capital and Glasgow, UK Police is using anti-terrorism laws, despite concerns of the civil rights that might be broken, in order to search everyone that looks suspicious. Nearly 11,000 people were stopped randomly and searched in July and the number of searches in London increased in the weeks after two cars packed with fuel, gas tanks and nails were found in the capital. Commander Rod Jarman of the Metropolitan Police stated that police will continue to do whatever is necessary in order to deter and prevent terrorist activity. Civil rights group Liberty disagree with the commander and reveals that random searches lead only to the loss of valuable police resources and the community relations were severely undermined. Also Toby Harris, the Home Secretary's representative on the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) out of 22,672 stopped in the year to September 2006 only 27 arrests were made. The dissatisfactory result shows how inefficient is the method. Some Muslim leaders are complaining that since the 2005 attacks Muslims were disproportionately searched in comparison with the other residents. The situation doesn't look very good neither from the MPA's perspective, nor from the civilians. Anti-terrorism police dramatically made random searches of members of the public in London and that lead to angry and fed up people that are no longer content of those that are supposed to protect them. A new Big Brother is about to be portrayed as the MPA's image. Today's dilemma is how democratic is their action and how long the people will endure. Stay close the answer is about to come.

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070806/tpl-uk-britain-security-search-47c7853_2.html

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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