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Home Office consultation paper on "Moderning police powers to meet community needs"

01 August 2004

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Includes dropping restriction on arrest to "serious offences", extending use of search warrants, allowing fingerprinting outside of police stations to establish "identity" (no requirement of an offence being suspected), "covert DNA and fingerprints", protests outside homes and powers to impose conditions on demonstrations "in the vicinity of Parliament Square" (ie: including Whitehall and No 10): Moderning police powers to meet community needs (pdf)

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