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Sir Mark rovleK Somitioner Metropolitan PoliceWhat will give the authorities more discretion to use “general knowledge” while deciding the reforms with senior colleagues. To record or check complaints About online posts.
He wants Shabana Mahmood, the new Home Secretary, “within weeks” to replace the rules so that the police are not obliged to pursue the cases where there is no evidence that the suspected real -world damage is intended, the sources said. Wire,
Change can also reduce the requirements for the officers to login the incidence of so-called non-prolonged hatred, including conditions where the behavior is not criminal, but is considered inspired by prejudice.
The review followed the controversy over the arrest of Comedy writer Graham Lineon in Heathro last week, which he had done about Trans people.
Nigel Faraj The issue has been given an important argument for its party, reform UK. At the party conference last week, he said that the reform “will not be police and tweets on the roads”.
After the arrest of Mr. Lineon, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that the government is not “policing on the streets, not only the policing tweet” and suggested that the law could be seen whether the law was “balanced”.
Ms. Mahmood has already indicated that she supports a more practical approach. Talking to a Lord’s Committee last week, he said that the police needed to focus on “over-wheat” and “day jobs to deal with” crime in our communities “.
Asked about the concern that the authorities were spending more time on the tweet than the crime, he told the Lord’s Constitution Committee: “Police need to focus on day jobs and maintain public confidence for crime in our communities.
“This is not far from the fact that you cannot commit an online crime,” said, “more comic in the end of the spectrum” referring to the difference between inciting violence than cases.
He said: “We should be clear that you know, social media is not a kind of free hit, when it comes to breaking our land laws, but we have to ensure that what we do is according to our land laws and this is not too much, and that the line is held in the right place and I think in the end, maintains public confidence.”
A police source told Wire The rules designed to protect the weaker people were now “binding the hands of the authorities” and erasing Vivek. He said that work was going on to develop proposals for reform which could be ready in weeks.
By June 2024 in 12 months, more than 13,200 non-prodible hatred incidents were recorded by the police, despite the updated guidance, the authorities should only log in when someone should log in to be “absolutely necessary and proportional” instead of being angry.