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10,000 more police
10,000 more police on the streets – cut crime and the fear of crime. By getting rid of Labour’s expensive, illiberal and ineffective ID card scheme, we will pay for 10,000 police on top of Labour’s plans. We will also complete existing plans for an extra 20,000 community support officers to back them up. The average police officer today spends more time in the police station than they do on the streets.
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This is much saner, the ID card is expensive and doomed to fail. The money can be much more wisely spent but we should not let the financial problems be the only reasons for stopping this. ID cards are fundamentally an invasion of our privacy and liberty. The radical change in the position of the individual in regards to State is not covered by any of these points about money.
Posted by: mark simpkins at April 20, 2005 04:25 PM