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Bill: Police Empowerment Act 2359
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Conservative Conference
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2359
Description[?]:
| For the sake of National security the Police Department must be empowered to act with due disgression. We must trust them to judge certain situations and act in the populations interest. *Harriet Newman, Shadow Internal Affairs |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: The police may only disperse a crowd if a state of emergency has been declared.
Current: The police may disperse a group if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Proposed: The police may disperse a group without giving any reason.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The use of torture for obtaining information.
Old value:: Torture is never allowed.
Current: Suspects can only be tortured under grave emergencies where the information is vital.
Proposed: It is at the discretion of the police officer to torture suspects for information.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:43:29, February 13, 2007 CET | From | Green Freedom Party | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | Wow - How many parties have made proposals about torture in the past few months alone? Is anyone else noticing the trend? |
| Date | 04:34:26, February 13, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Conference | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | whats up? feeling left out? |
| Date | 06:53:47, February 13, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | No. Just have the feeling this nation is transforming into a fascist paradise. Luckily the DCMLU is there to calm the dictators down... |
| Date | 06:55:02, February 13, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | btw, I was not answering in GFP's name, but only expressing my view by backing their view |
| Date | 17:31:31, February 13, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Party of Dorvik | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | This bill would be a severe breach on civil rights,stability of the society and accountability of the police, being step closer to authoritarian state. We oppose this bill. |
| Date | 23:08:00, February 13, 2007 CET | From | Green Freedom Party | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | Actually, at the moment it isn't the DCMLU that's preventing fascism from taking over - it's the "swing-ish" votes of the least authoritarian government party, the Moderates. |
| Date | 02:02:07, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Anarcho-Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | Dictatorship != legalized torture. Proposing hereditary HoS who is also the HoG would be dictatorship. This is simply allowing our police force to crack down on crime more easily. Criminals are scum; why should we treat them like anything better? |
| Date | 05:55:41, February 14, 2007 CET | From | Union of Public Employees | To | Debating the Police Empowerment Act 2359 |
| Message | fascist paradise? We prefer the term unlibertious utopia. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 147 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 121 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 31 |
| Random fact: Culturally Open nations can adopt advisory/non-enforceable Nation Descriptions. See http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6242 |
| Random quote: "The whole uncivilized bunch on the opposite benches can get stuffed." - Craig Warwick, former Dranian politician |