The UK government is debating a new legislation to grant police more powers to restrict protests and demonstrations.
The bill would mean the police taking a more proactive approach to dealing with “highly disruptive” protests which might cause public disturbance.
The debate over whether to enshrine the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 into law was written over the last few months,
This has become a particularly poignant point of discussion following multiple arrests at
a vigil in London for Sarah Everard over the weekend. Everard vanished on 3 March while walking home from a friend’s house and her body was later found around 100km away.
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Plans to send plainclothes police into British nightclubs and improve public lighting to increase women's safety in the wake of the Sarah Everard murder case were criticised as ’laughable’ by policing experts and rights campaigners.
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Plans to send plainclothes police into British nightclubs and improve public lighting to increase women’s safety in the wake of a high-profile murder case were criticized as “laughable” by policing experts and rights campaigners on Tuesday.
The government announced the measures on Monday as the death of Sarah Everard, 33, and police’s handling of a memorial vigil, where they tussled with mourners, fuelled a national debate over women’s safety and criticism of police.