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Civilian Force Of 60,000 Trained As "Terrorist"
Spotters
MI5 and UK police groom thousands to spy on public
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 MI5
is currently training up to 60,000 UK citizens as part a civilian
network of terrorist spotters, according to Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and home secretary, Jacqui Smith.
Details of the initiative were revealed yesterday
as part of the British Government's new £3.5bn a year
counter-terrorist framework known as "Contest Two".
Writing in the London
Observer yesterday, Gordon Brown outlined how large
numbers of staff on rail networks, at airports, shopping centres,
public buildings and sports venues are already being groomed
by MI5 and the police and trained to watch for "suspicious
behaviour".
"We should be under no illusion that the
biggest security threat to our country and other countries is
the murderous agents of hate that work under the banner of al-Qaida,"
Brown wrote.
"Today, not only the police and security
and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the
emergency services, local councils, businesses and community
groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning,"
he continued.
"Tens of thousands of men and women throughout
Britain – from security guards to store managers –
have now been trained and equipped to deal with an incident
and know what to watch for as people go about their daily business
in crowded places such as stations, airports, shopping centres
and sports grounds."
Further
reports have indicated that the training also involves
evacuation and crowd-control procedures.
The home secretary, Jacqui
Smith, commented;
"What we're completely clear about is that
if we're going to address the threat from terrorism, we need
to do that alongside the 60,000 people that we're now training
up to respond to a terrorist threat, in everywhere from our
shopping centres to our hotels. This is no longer something
you can do behind closed doors and in secret."
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The initiative continues the government's trend
of utilising the public and their jobs as part of so called
strategies against terrorism and crime.
For several years now, reports
have consistently emerged concerning the ongoing
move to hand over new powers enacted under anti-terrorism legislation
to town hall bureaucrats and lowly council workers.
Last year it also
emerged that state and private sector employees
are being encouraged to apply for Home Office accreditation,
which effectively arms them with sweeping police-style powers,
allowing them to demand identification and hand out fines for
a raft of offences, from dropping litter to riding a bike on
the pavement.
A similar strategy is even being implemented to
deal with so called "green
offences", as citizens
snoopers are being employed to report litter louts,
dog foulers and even people who fail to sort out their rubbish
properly. Over 50% of councils have admitted to using
anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of
putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
Privacy campaigners have compared the trend to
the activities of the ‘Stasi’ - the infamous East
German secret police.
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