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Bill: Policing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonese Communist Party
Status[?]: defeated
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 2623
Description[?]:
| Telamon's policing services should be provided by publically-accountable police authorities, not by profit-motivated private enterprises. Some other reforms to policing in Telamon would be desirable too, such as allowing local authorities to determine local policing priorities and giving the police the powers to intervene when protest marches get out of control. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The citizens' right to assemble in public.
Old value:: There are no restrictions on the right of citizens to assemble in groups.
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 if they believe it poses a potential risk to public safety.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: A civilian police force is in place and the military is not allowed to play any part in it.
Current: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Proposed: A civilian police force is in place and the military may be called in to help in serious emergencies.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the organization of police/law enforcement
Old value:: The government competitively subcontracts security management to private security firms.
Current: There is a national police department, funded by the government.
Proposed: There is a national police department funded by the national government and there are local police departments, funded by local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards police presence.
Old value:: The police patrol all property at all times.
Current: The police patrol public property at all times.
Proposed: Presence of the police is left to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:22:58, August 18, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the Policing Act |
| Message | This is reminscent of Rubenstein-esque authoritarianism, not accountability. We must improve the quality of the service provided, not give them more power without reason, in order to produce a truly accountable and effective police force. Patrick Ellson Internal Affairs Minister |
| Date | 02:15:53, August 18, 2008 CET | From | New Humanitarian Party | To | Debating the Policing Act |
| Message | Though I agree with Article 3,4 , but I strongly disagree with 1,5. Well, Article 2 is somewhat acceptable. For this reason, I say no. |
| Date | 03:19:07, August 18, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Policing Act |
| Message | We disagree with this bill on the whole, although the DCD would like to see articles III and IV proposed as a separate bill. Daunte Woodson Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 63 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 361 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 77 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." - Vladimir Lenin |