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The police want the authority to publish more details about some cases

The police want the freedom to release further details of some investigations to prevent misinformation that can lead to threats to public security or national security.

In a submission of a review of the contempt for court laws, three national police authorities have announced that they can say more if a “turning point” is achieved and could lead to violation of violation.

The Southport Movement Movement Movement in July follows as misinformation about the attacker on social media, which the Merseyside police initially did not counter what led to unrest in the whole of Great Britain.

Current laws prevent certain details in ongoing criminal matters that are published before a court proceedings so that the jury does not affect it.

The Merseyside police were criticized for this

The early police communication strategy was based on the public prosecutors' advice, the head of the armed forces previously said.

A review is now being examined in which the strict laws of Great Britain are examined to examine what can be published during an ongoing criminal investigation and how the judicial system should react to violations.

In its transmission during the review, the Council of the National Police President, College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing said, the criminal judiciary should achieve a “collective perspective” how the need for a accused can be reconciled in order to maintain a fair procedure and the need to maintain public order.

“We would welcome the recognition of the non -controlled misinformation and disinformation about top -class criminal incidents that can rightly affect the public in order to create a feverish environment in which the risk of spreading disorders is higher,” says the submissions.

“We want the legal framework to recognize that this risk exists.

“We believe that there is space to offer a stronger reassurance in cases where a turning point has been reached, and if information is helpful to combat misinformation and disinformation to combat risks of public security.

“Flexibility is necessary to alleviate the clear risks of public security.”

The police submitting that more information is published in other countries.

In August 2024, the Austrian police disturbed a conspiracy to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.

They made public:

  • Details on chemical substances and devices in the house of the main suspect

  • Details of the nationalities of the suspects

  • Details of employment the suspects

  • Details of the arrest and that one of the suspects does not resist the arrest

  • A summary of what the suspects had said when the police interviewed, including the discussion of their killing plans and that they had uploaded ISIS to have a loyalty on the Internet

  • Details of the views of the authorities on the thinking and ideology of the suspects they had inspired

“If the public in Great Britain reviews media reporting about such cases and realizes that the Austrian public will receive information that the police would say in this country, at that time cannot be shared so as not to impair a process – they have the right to ask whether this is true,” says the submission.

In the case of Southport, very little information was given when the murderer was arrested.

False online rumors spread online hours after the attack that the perpetrator was an asylum seeker and possibly an Islamist extremist, and the following day there was a violent protest near the scene.

Unrest in which mosquitoes and hotels, the migrants in the apartment in the apartment, were attacked soon spread across the country.

In a press release at 17:25 on July 29, 2024, the day of the murders, the police only said that a “17-year-old man from banks” had been arrested in connection with the murders.

The Merseyside boss Serena Kennedy wanted to reveal the suspect's religion to counteract suggestions that what had happened had been a terrorist attack by an Islamic extremist.

She informed the selection committee of the Ministry of the Interior on Tuesday that she had declared the deputy regional lawyer for the Crown Concity service: “I have to help my colleagues, my colleague, the chief constables. Some of the streets of Great Britain, and I have to help you as much as possible.”

However, she said that the CPS was concerned that the recording of the detail about the religion of the suspect could affect future criminal proceedings.

Later the National CPS said that it was happy to include the detail of religion, but it was too late.

Ms. Kennedy said to MP: “At that time we were down and we prepared for the press conference so that we were not seen by ourselves.”

The submission of the police when checking the legal commission also calls for a harder line with “people with important public profiles, some in the selected office” that can take stories of conspiracy and cover -up with their platform “.