Comments on: Terror Bill http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/03/1909 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:42:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Roger Huffadine http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/03/1909#comment-3734 Roger Huffadine Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:32:30 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/03/1909#comment-3734 If the argument is about how many pages of printed A4 one can get from a hard drive of unspecified size then clearly we are not talking solely about a need to detain suspects for 90 days. This is a resource issue - clearly the police do not have analytical tools and sufficient computing power to tackle the task in hand. Without proper planning and resources the need to keep people locked up without charge for 90 days will escalate to 120 days as the police get more bogged down, disks get bigger and computers faster. So if the government were to put more money and resources into the 'war on terror' we wouldn't need to extend the 14 days. BUT police funding comes from local rates and it would be embarrassing to force those up further. Cabinet discussion - Home Sec. "The police want more money or they will need to lock people up for 90 days without charge" PM "Lets just lock people up - after all the prisons aren't full are they? and anyway it will look like we are doing something positive about the war on terror". Home Sec. "How about a bit of money and 28 days?" PM "F*** that we need the money for next year's pay rise" If the argument is about how many pages of printed A4 one can get from a hard drive of unspecified size then clearly we are not talking solely about a need to detain suspects for 90 days.

This is a resource issue - clearly the police do not have analytical tools and sufficient computing power to tackle the task in hand.

Without proper planning and resources the need to keep people locked up without charge for 90 days will escalate to 120 days as the police get more bogged down, disks get bigger and computers faster.

So if the government were to put more money and resources into the ‘war on terror’ we wouldn’t need to extend the 14 days.

BUT police funding comes from local rates and it would be embarrassing to force those up further.

Cabinet discussion -
Home Sec.
"The police want more money or they will need to lock people up for 90 days without charge"

PM
"Lets just lock people up - after all the prisons aren’t full are they? and anyway it will look like we are doing something positive about the war on terror".

Home Sec.
"How about a bit of money and 28 days?"

PM
"F*** that we need the money for next year’s pay rise"

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