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Bill: Provision for Special Assistance Units
Details
Submitted by[?]: Alorian Free Democrats
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: October 2473
Description[?]:
| In order to safely defuse intricate situations, I believe it is necessary to introduce new specialized police units. These teams would be used in operations where ordinary police officers are out of their depth, and specialized training and equipment are required. Without assistance, officers can inadvertently cause additional danger to themselves, the public and the suspects. For your consideration, -Ted Novy, Minister of Internal Affairs |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:29:23, October 20, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Provision for Special Assistance Units |
| Message | This was one of the first bills I ever introduced and it was unanimously voted out! |
| Date | 17:54:38, October 20, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Provision for Special Assistance Units |
| Message | One of the reasons we changed our vote was to support our long time ally, the AFP. We're coalition builders, SLP. But we've found you difficult to work with. "Principle" is a good reason to vote for or against something. But depending on the importance of the issue, there are other reasons to vote for or against something too. The Living Wage is our crowning legislative achievement, for example. We'd be very unlikely to ever vote against that. It's too important of an issue for us. But whether police forces can have special firearms units is a less important issue to us, and one we feel we can compromise on to help an ally, or build political capital, or whatever. It's not really personal. It's just how we prefer to operate. Maybe you're more concerned with principle than we are, and that's fine too. Just different approaches to politics and policy. |
| Date | 17:57:12, October 20, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Provision for Special Assistance Units |
| Message | "Politics is the art of the possible."--unknown. "Pragmatism is the art of the possible."--unknown. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 465 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 235 |
| Random fact: Dorvik is a nation based on Germanic and old Prussian cultures, it is located on the far north of Artania, making it an almost arctic nation. |
| Random quote: "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making." - Otto von Bismarck |