Agreed Steve but I'm equally sure you know as well as I do the police are well proven for being 'creative' in generating reasons and excuses to interfere where they should not.
Just as only last week when the Government / Liberty etc went ballistic when they found out the cops were using anti terror laws ILLEGALLY to spy on legitimate journalists phone calls. The very same situation that saw journalists imprisoned for phone hacking the cops did the same to journalists months later.
If the police are given powers they inevitably abuse or distort the use of those powers. I remember multiple chief constables being trotted out on TV saying only a few years ago that Tazors would rarely be used and only by specialist fire arms officers in dire emergencies, now we see many cops routinely using tazors AGAINSt the agreed guidelines for use. Two recent cases being a mentally handicapped child being razored and an blind, crippled elderly chap being razored for walking using a white cane.
Its a given that the cops will misuse the powers they always do. YES it may only happen occasionally but if it happened to be you or I who was targeted its end result is still going to be dire.
“Where it is judged necessary, based on specific intelligence in light of a particular threat, or risk of harm"
1 WHO decides WHERE, WHY and WHEN the local cop who doesn't like your teenage son, the fire arms officer whose wife has just left him, an inspector with a political agenda, a chief constable reacting to knee jerk anti gun hysteria.
2 Specific intelligence ? Local gossip, a woman who does not like the gun owner shooting rabbits, a fit up by a tabloid paper
Who judges the decision making process ? its the cops themselves and thereby lies the problem.
FYI Steve I still think it is insane that decent hard working law abiding citizens should have to apply for the right to own an FAC or Shotgun.
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