Crown Prosecution Service to tackle "Violent Porn"
AV8R, 24 Oct 2005 01:28:48
From PCPRO News:
"The Crown Prosecution Service has outlined its commitment to combatting crime on the Internet.
At a conference on Child Pornography yesterday, the group proposed making possession of violent pornographic material a criminal offence.
In addition, a new Centre for Child Protection on the Internet was announced that will support both the police and the child protection authorities in their efforts to target paedophiles trafficking illegal images across the Internet.
Philip Geering, policy director, said: 'The new Centre will be part of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and its aim will be to reduce the harm caused to children, families and societies by child abuse facilitated through the Internet. The CPS will be working closely with the new Centre once it is set up.'
The CPS said it also now boasts a team of 110 lawyers specially trained to crack down on Internet crime and child pornography."
This certainly should serve as a warning (if one was needed)that the govt is serious about proceeding beyond the consultation phase.
If the CPS is already planning and preparing for it before a bill is even drafted, then clearly the govt is very confident this will be passed.
We would be well advised to start planning phase 2.
demolitionred, 24 Oct 2005 08:03:18
phase 2 planning has begun.
I think it is worth someone ( the legal team) writing and trying to meet Philip Geering, policy director, and asking him how he can be planning so early, what exactly he is planning and how he defines sexual violence.
demolitionred, 24 Oct 2005 08:30:52
Av8R...
this is about child porn, which has already been made illegal...
was anything said about the new proposals?
Paul C. Dickie, 24 Oct 2005 12:10:22
In message <2610893.1130113722690.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com
>, av8r0344@hotmail.com wrote:
>From PCPRO News:
>This certainly should serve as a warning (if one was needed)that the govt is
>serious about proceeding beyond the consultation phase.
You appear to have made the mistake of believing that the 'government'
might actually heed negative views expressed during the "consultation"
exercise. Quite how anyone could make that mistake when one considers
the "consultation exercises" over the war in Mesopotamia or over ID
cards is probably something of a mystery, but the fact remains that the
"consultation" is simply a one-sided and authoritarian version of a
Green Paper and seems not to have benefited from Civil Service help.
>If the CPS is already planning and preparing for it before a bill is even
>drafted, then clearly the govt is very confident this will be passed.
Why not? After all, such a measure might be very populist ^W popular,
especially with the right-wing press. Not even the loathsome 'Michael
Howard' went quite *that* far.
Phoney Tony really does seem most *determined* to be remembered...
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< Paul >