UK Police Told to Be Polite While Raiding Terror Suspects
Charles Johnson
Tue Aug 2, 2005 at 1:57 pm PDT • Views: 247
British police have been ordered to refrain from using dogs and to remove their shoes when raiding Muslim homes. (Hat tip: Darwin Akbar.)
And no raids during prayer times.
Ian Johnston, the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, is taken to task by the human rights lobby when he says his officers won’t be wasting time searching ‘little old white ladies’ on the Tube.
Leaked guidelines from the Bedfordshire force say that when officers raid Muslim homes they should remove their shoes, not use dogs and not mount pre-dawn raids because at that hour people might by ‘spiritually busy’.
Frank says: