Clause 73 - Urgent investigative steps
Criminal Justice Bill
6:00 pm
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 385, in
clause 73, page 45, line 36, leave out paragraph (b).
This is the same argument with knobs on. The police do not need the power ''to prevent death''. Subsection (5) states:
''The third condition is that the action is necessary as a matter of urgency . . . to prevent the investigation being substantially and irrevocably prejudiced''—
I can understand that—or
''to prevent death or serious personal injury.''
The police have no need of such a power, as ample common laws are already in place to do precisely that.