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Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Delegation of police authority functions (10 May 2006)

Frank Cook: ...of the police force. Modernisation is certainly needed, as are re-equipping and new methods of detection and pursuit, especially to take account of the changes that are occurring in not only terrorism, but drug and commercial crime. However, simply coming up with a set of proposals, giving people three weeks to consider them, stating that options could be put forward, but sweeping those...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Delegation of police authority functions (10 May 2006)

Frank Cook: ...with the chief constable of West Mercia in a recent episode of "HARDtalk" on BBC News 24. The interview will give him great cause for a rethink. There was a man who was special branch and had anti-terror responsibilities, with a remarkable record and a force with an astonishing track record on policing efficiency. He was really given a hard time by Stephen Sackur—he was not on a soft...

Police Service Restructuring (29 Nov 2005)

Frank Cook: ...and Wales on regional lines. What is not so widely known is the astonishing speed at which the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, is bulldozing this through. Using the usual excuse, 'the need to fight terrorism', his plans first surfaced on September 16. Six days later he gave the 43 chief constables an ultimatum: they must come up with their plans for a mass-merger by November 28, and by...

Police Service Restructuring (29 Nov 2005)

Frank Cook: ...big does not answer the problem. It is communication that is important. [Interruption.] Absolutely. It is communication and co-operation that are important. That is the secret of how to defeat the terrorism that is used to justify these insane measures.

Kosovo (18 May 1999)

Mr Frank Cook: ...may now have killed 20,000 to 30,000 men, women and children. None of those was killed by tragic accident. All of them were killed deliberately and callously. The bald statistics cannot convey the terror of those who have been evicted at the point of a gun; or the anguish of those who have been separated from their husbands and children and are left with the fear, but not the certainty,...

Ireland (Joint Declaration) (15 Dec 1993)

Mr Frank Cook: The Prime Minister must be pleased and proud to put the offer for peace on the table today and I, like most hon. Members, am happy about it. However, will he bear in mind that the active elements of terrorism in Northern Ireland will not wish to see a cessation of violence—the element that have what I call a gangster mentality who have been making a good living from what is going on?...

Defence: First Day (14 Oct 1991)

Mr Frank Cook: ...in the view that they just will not do. Following the attempted coup in the Soviet Union and in the light of the potential bushfire in Yugoslavia and the ever-present threat of international terrorism, such comments cannot go unheeded. The only sensible action is to review the Government's decision, which is clearly wrong. It does not make sense to argue that the defence budget should be...

Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs, European Community and Defence (24 Nov 1989)

Mr Frank Cook: ...for anyone else to follow her example. I shall concentrate on one feature of the Queen's Speech. The two relevant passages state: My Government will maintain their fight against international terrorism", and my Government will maintain its support for the enforcement of the law and the defeat of terrorism". It is necessary to question the veracity of those claims. The House will know that...

Debate on the Address: First Day (22 Nov 1988)

Mr Frank Cook: ...weapon was to say yes. He went on to say that that terrified many military analysts. I have been trying to highlight the contradictions. In other words, many of the military analysts from NATO admit their terror—"terrified" was Dr. McGeehan's word—that the threat that they have used as a justification for increased expenditure on arms was to be removed. I could accept their...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (1 Mar 1988)

Mr Frank Cook: The Prime Minister has always taken every opportunity to condemn any act of terrorism, with the notable exceptions of the invasion of Grenada —[HON. MEMBERS: "Question".] — the support for the Nicaraguan Contras and, of course, the air raid on Libya, which was launched from Alconbury and Lakenheath. In view of the recent incontrovertible evidence of South African involvement in...

Tokyo Economic Summit (8 May 1986)

Mr Frank Cook: Will the Prime Minister tell the House whether, as a result of her economic discussions, she is to be allowed to lift the pressure of economic terrorism perpetrated against New Zealand because of its refusal to have nuclear weapons within its waters?

Lebanon (Terrorism) (17 Apr 1986)

Mr Frank Cook: ...Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Mr. Anderson), especially with his expressions of sympathy and condolence, in the same way as I associate myself with the Prime Minister's statement on Tuesday: Terrorism is a scourge of the modern age."—[Official Report, 15 April 1986; Vol. 95, c. 730.] In fact, most people would agree that terrorism is an almost exquisite form of premeditated...