Friends vow to continue police bill opposition

'We continue to work with others to oppose this bill and other threats to democracy and human rights in the UK.'

by Rebecca Hardy 28th January 2022

Quakers have vowed to keep opposing the policing bill as many ‘dangerous’ proposals are still in place. The government suffered a series of defeats in the House of Lords on 17 January over the much-maligned Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. In what campaigners described as a ‘humiliating night for the government’, peers voted down several proposed powers. These included one allowing police officers to stop and search anyone at a protest ‘without suspicion’ for ‘locking-on’ items.