Evaluation of the impact of the counter terrorism policies

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Evaluation of the impact of the counter terrorism policies on the liberty of the individual in the UK and comment about its effectiveness

The present Government under Gordon Brown is pressing to raise the limit for detention of suspects from 28 day to 42 days as part of the counter terrorist policies. Moreover, there was changed traditional Terrorism Act 2000 to 2006 by adding new offences and changing some of old offences and law in order to improve the ability of the police and security forces to catch and convict alleged terrorists. However, in spite of fact that changes has been made because of government security question, that is always must be in the first place, in comparison with others, there are also negative points of these changes and it has got straight connection on the liberty of each individual in the UK.

Firstly, these changes is provided the removing of the bar on the use of intercept evidence and it is going to be a major factor that is being unable to bring charges in terror cases. This point straight connected to the liberty of the individual in UK; moreover, this feature is disturbing Section 9 of Human Rights, because in the first place a lot of peaceful people might be arrested because of suspicion. Liberty of the individual might be very limited, because in the first place there is not a guarantee that only terrorist or people who might have connected to terror actions will be suspected. However, according to the fact that the security question of the government must be decided in the first place, there is huge advantage of this point and it will be very effective if government provide special psychology training on identification of strange people that can disturb government security. It is very effective point, because in the first place if a person who has got connection to terrorism will be noted but there won’t be accurate evidence and proves that he is terrorist, police can intercept without such difficulties that it might be before.

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Secondly, this reform allows questioning in terror case while routine check. This will allows for a charge to be replaced with a more appropriate offence at later stage. This feature connects to liberty of each UK citizen who might not like to listen questioning about terror case; however, it is necessary to do this questions, because in the first place the result might be achieved very easily, because sometimes it is quiet easy to understand that person is strange and know something and hiding it only through the conversation. It follows that this point is very effective and might be ...

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