Police chiefs 'dread' enforcing hunt ban By Valerie Elliott and Stewart Tendler POLICE chiefs warn the Government today that a blanket ban on fox-hunting would be almost impossible to enforce. One chief constable says that he will not spend precious resources snooping on people hunting on private land, and that he will put action against illegal hunts behind dealing with road accidents and robberies on his list of priorities. Writing in The Times on the day the Hunting Bill goes to a Commons committee after Monday’s overwhelming vote for an outright ban, Alastair McWhirter says the new law fills police officers with dread. Mr McWhirter, who is Chief Constable of Suffolk and rural spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers, expects widespread flouting of the law. He thinks people will wear ordinary clothes instead of hunting jackets and claim that they are simply out riding with their dogs. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-733433,00.html July 03, 2003 --------------------------------------- "Perceptions" note: Are Chief Constables fools? - Do they think we are? For years UK police have been oppressing libertarians and protesters (aginst corrupt taxation & bent laws), by simply filming all protest events. UK's biased judges seem only too happy to jail _anyone_ filmed by police at libertarian protests. UK's judges have been shown to be partial and untrustworthy - not to say corrupt: see "laworjustice" in Google. Now we see our Police Chiefs are equally biased - not to say corrupt. "One law for the rich ... " (OLFOR) ------------------------------------------------ FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/olfor.txt