From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Electronic Telegraph
>ISSUE 2065 Friday 19 January 2001
>CHIEF constables have warned the Home Office that a ban on hunting with dogs
>could damage relationships between the police and rural communities and
>stretch already limited resources.
substitution mode ON
CHIEF constables have warned the Home Office that a ban on handguns
could damage relationships between the police and the shooting community
and stretch already limited resources.
But did anyone listen?
>The Association of Chief Police Officers told the Government that its
>members strongly supported the regulation of hunting by an independent
>licensing authority "which did not involve the police".
ho-ho-ho. But they are dead against an independent firearms licensing
authority.
>Although the association statement makes clear, in unusually forthright
>terms, that chiefs are far from enthusiastic about a ban, its release only
>after the vote reflected the chief constables' traditional reluctance to be
>seen to be influencing political decisions.
Sorry, it reflected what?
>"It goes without saying that the police will do their best to meet the
>demands of any new legislation. But inevitably hard decisions will have to
>be made on priorities."
In other words, don't be surprised if the police turn a blind eye to it.
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
"Justice is open to everybody in the same way as the Ritz Hotel."
Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
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