at Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:48 PM, Chris Ball
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say:
> Another point is that ``normal'' constables aren't able to action the
> request; they have to be approved by the Chief Constable of a police
> force, or the head of a relevant Government department. The full text
> of the Act is available at:
at least in theory. It was only a massive public "FaxYourMP" campaign
that aborted the attempt to extend the "people able to authorise" list
for interception to the head of any local government department (and a
few other groups). I have no reason to believe that a similar paper
would not have extended authority to demand keys right down to the
dogcatcher general too.... :)
