The bill is yet to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Vaclav Klaus. Under the legislation, the police will have the right to switch off telecommunication connection in case of a security risk that might cause damage over five million crowns. Policemen would also have access to data on phone calls, the use of payment cards and health care treatment during their search. Moreover, policemen would be allowed to enter business facilities on the basis of a substantiated suspicion that a wanted person is hiding there. The new legislation will also enable the police to use Taser, an electroshock Three people detained during extremists' march in Czech town ...
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Czech govt approves programme in support of science, research ... weapon based on Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology, but only if other coercive means failed. The U.N.
has called the use of such paralysers a form of torture. The new bill would partially change the form of the inspection investigating offences committed by policemen. In the future, the government instead of the Interior Minister only will appoint the inspection chiefs. The bill would also establish regional police directorates in all 14 self-rule regions in the country. (USD1=15.464 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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