UK gets its Stasi !: Everybody to spy and report on neigbours and 'troublemakers " !

 Town Halls should map race and religion to
identify 'tension hotspots', says Hazel Blears in a UK "Daily  Mail" report.-
Blears: Committees will be set up to cut the risk of riots or disturbancesMore
than 10 million people are to have their everyday disputes, their politics and
their business lives checked by new "tension monitoring" committees.

The committees are to be set up to try to cut the risk of riots or disturbances
in the aftermath of terrorist outrages or outbreaks of local racial trouble.
They will ask for and file reports on named troublemakers whose political
activities are considered to be raising community tensions.

Reports on the behaviour and attitudes of local residents will be collected by
community workers, neighbourhood wardens, local councillors and provided by
voluntary organisations, according to a paper published by Communities Secretary
Hazel Blears today.

It will then be considered by the monitoring committees run by town halls.
A sample "tension monitoring form" for use in checking on the likelihood of
local racial or religious trouble asks for details of individuals considered to
be making political trouble.
The monitoring committees will ask for information on those identified as
troublemakers with includes "age, gender, ethnicity and faith" of those being
reported on.

The call for monitoring of everyday life in the cause of "community cohesion
contingency planning" was made by Mrs Blears in a paper aiming to help identify
"tension hotspots" and improve cohesion - the Government's buzzword for reducing
racial and religious strife.

The word was adopted in 2006 after the once-dominating left-wing doctrine of
multiculturalism was dropped by Labour because it made tensions worse rather
than better.
But the establishment of monitoring committees in town halls is likely to
generate new concerns about spying and surveillance by local councils.
Concerns have deepened in recent weeks after the Daily Mail revealed that Poole
council in Dorset had spied on a family's life for three weeks because it
wrongly suspected the parents of abusing rules on school catchment areas.
There are also worries over the spread of new council quasi-police forces, like
the bin police that recently gave a criminal record to a bus driver in Cumbria
who left the lid of his family wheelie bin open by four inches.
Mrs Blears' paper said that a recent survey by her department found that 81 per
cent of the population feel that people from different backgrounds get on well
in her area.

However, that means that nearly one in five people - more than 11 million - live
in areas where the new tension monitoring committees will operate.
The Communities Secretary said: "The overwhelming majority of people in this
country live successfully side by side but we cannot take this for granted.
"Challenges to cohesion do exist - this might be between different ethnic or
faith groups or new migrants and longer-term residents - but things can be done
to address problems at the earliest opportunity and stop things escalating."
She said town halls would get an extra £50 million to help them set up and run
the new tension monitoring committees, each of which will be run by a senior
local authority official.

The committees will include representatives from housing authorities, schools,
the NHS, the fire brigade, community workers and neighbourhood wardens in area
which have them. Voluntary, community and faith groups will also be asked to
provide information.

They will record "qualitative community intelligence" alongside reports of race
incidents, gang and turf conflicts, disputes between neighbours, complaints
about noise, and examples of low local trust, including low trust in
politicians.
Economic activity, including business investment, and housing demand will also
be monitored. So will political extremism.
The "sample tension monitoring form" provided by civil servants as a model for
councils to follow in recording information calls for the name of the monitor
and his or her organisation to be filed.
It asks for an assessment of whether levels of community tension are high,
medium or low.

Under the heading "political" monitors are asked to provide "details of
situation/incident (ie where, when, who (age, gender, ethnicity, faith), and
what (useful to specify whether 'experienced, evidence, or potential)."
Councils are told that under data protection law they are allowed to record
details of individuals as long as the material is "fairly" gathered and stored.

Comment :

Have  you got an attitude problem to that?

Oh,then your a suwspect .Iwill report that its my civic duty to protect democracy!

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http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/164418


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no to stasi !: Just support your well paid local police agents.

There is no need for a "stasi" neigbour spy police state style system here.

In our democratic society the police are already on the ball monitering disadents and potential trouble makers or muslim 'suspects".

Suspect libarians ,locals ,students and the like are already being closely monitered by our vigilant police  and as recent events show our councils like Leichhart are willing to act ,thank god ,in defence of acceptable kinds of free speech.

The war against terror is already well in hand.

Just support your local community police .and keep your fridge magnet handy.

Simply memorise the number regularly shown on T.V.and report anything  and everyone you suspect.

leave it up tho the regular police its what they are paid to do.

http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/anti-terror-cops-force-closure-palestine-exhibition


Re: UK gets its Stasi !: Everybody to spy and report ...

"no to stasi !: Just support your well paid local police agents.

On May 14th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:

There is no need for a "stasi" neigbour spy police state style system here. "

Pile of garbage . Face the facts : Your local Police are crooks and liars  The war on terror is a fraud . The Stasi is already there in Australia . The previous Australian Government should go on trial as WAR CRIMINALS .

The coalition of the "willing " : Australia , US , UK are the biggest terrorist in the World together with Israhell . Wake up Austrlia is already a police state where everything of importance is totally fixed .


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