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90 Days

Asked to respond to the Home Affairs Committee’s account of the vote for 90 day detention of people suspected of taking part in terrorism, the PMOS said that he was glad that question had been asked. He pointed out that if people cast their minds back to the debate he had had with the lobby in this very room last autumn they would recall that we reported at the time that the Prime Minister had had two very detailed meetings with Senior officers from the police and security services. Senior police officers including ACPO had made representations to MPs and had been criticised at the time for politicisation. We had spelled out very clearly what the case was, starting from the fact that you had to intervene very early in the investigation cycle. There was also the fact that you had to allow a lot of time for de-encrypting computers. Also many of the sources for such information came from multiple countries and that the information was expressed in multiple languages and dialects. That was the detailed basis on which we made the case for 90 days. As we had made clear at the time our view about the need for that period hadn’t changed since then.

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