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Bill: Civilian Police Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federalist 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: July 3679
Description[?]:
| A bill providing a civilian police force and the freeing of civil rights. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Current: The state owns national defence industries but these exist alongside privately owned defence industries.
Proposed: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Discrimination in the military on grounds of race/religion.
Old value:: Candidates must be of a certain race/religion to have any place in the military.
Current: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Proposed: Any adult citizen can serve in the military, discrimination for racial or religious reasons is prohibited.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The nation's policy on the separation of the police and the military.
Old value:: The military acts as a de-facto police force, with powers of arrest.
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 4
Proposal[?] to change Government's position on paramilitaries.
Old value:: Paramilitaries are allowed as part of each political party.
Current: Paramilitaries are illegal and the recognized government may intervene freely to stop any possible activity.
Proposed: Paramilitaries are illegal and the recognized government may intervene freely to stop any possible activity.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:32:26, June 09, 2014 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, if this bill passes, you would have to set up a police force while outlawing paramilitary organisations. We wonder, how would these paramilitary organisations react? Anders Dewitte P&A spokesman |
| Date | 22:00:54, June 09, 2014 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | OOC: You do realise that elections are in less than 8 months, so the bill won't be processed, right? |
| Date | 22:01:46, June 09, 2014 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | OOC: I did. But still, making a point... ;-) |
| Date | 22:09:35, June 09, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is a stupid bill, like most of the bills proposed by the Federalist Party. Another law, which isn't addressed in this bill, states that there is a professional reserve military that exists in alignment with paramilitary groups. How can this bill propose to make paramilitaries illegal while ignoring that law, which depends on the existence of paramilitaries? While discouraging privatization of a key part of defence, i.e. the paramilitaries, the same bill proposes to have all defence industries privatised, with no state intervention whatsoever. The bill also claims to be "providing a civilian police force" while it doesn't even address the National Police Department policy: http://classic.particracy.net/viewvariable.php?variable=POLICE Currently, that law (which hasn't been proposed to be changed in this bill) states that the state contracts private security groups to enforce law and maintain security. Currently, the police setup is easily understandable. There are regular security groups which are unarmed, and there are armed paramilitaries with powers of arrest, responsible for both law enforcement and state defence. That's efficiency, but this bill is crap. Mr. Speaker, this bill is a random assembly of inconsistent proposals that could never have been drafted by any competent MP. -- Eric Fertig, GNRG Spokesman on Internal Affairs |
| Date | 22:10:05, June 09, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | OOC: M13, I wasn't talking about you... I was talking about van16, the guy who claims that we don't know how to play the game. |
| Date | 22:23:12, June 09, 2014 CET | From | Conservative Alliance Party | To | Debating the Civilian Police Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We echo the words of Mr. Fertig from the Great National Republican Guard. While we support the notion of a capable independent police authority, this legislation is full of holes and non related issues. We vote a strong Nay. Larry Holdman Justice Critic for the CAP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 52 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 547 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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