- Question by: Jenny Jones
- Meeting date: 03 December 2008
Mr Mayor, I would like to agree with you that this does look a disproportionate use of police powers, albeit within the law. Can I just remind you that they also use other powers disproportionately? If you are gong to perhaps start to look at what powers they have used and whether it is disproportionate, perhaps you will also like to look at the use of Section 60 [of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994], which is entirely beyond what was expected when that law was enacted. I would say it is an abuse of the law that...