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» Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Reasonable Force

Asked if the Home Secretary’s statement would represent a change in the Government’s position on reasonable force the PMOS said that before christmas we had promised to talk to ACPO and other relevant people about this issue. We had accepted then that there had been a degree of confusion around the issue. The written statement would report back on that process of consultation. The PMOS declined to pre-empt the Home Secretary’s statement.

Asked if there would be a change in the law the PMOS indicated that that was unlikely. Asked if the Government’s latest position was backed by ACPO, the DPP, and other relevant bodies the PMOS said his understanding was that the relevant bodies were supportive of the Government’s view and that there was now a genuine consensus on what needed to be done. Asked if the met commissioner had been consulted the pmos referred journalists to the home office for specific details of the process.

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