Terror arrest without charge to be halved to 14 days
Sadie Gray
January 20 2011 1:41PM
Police will be allowed to hold terrorist suspects for 14 days without charge, the Government announced today. An order permitting 28 days of detention without charge expires at midnight on Monday and will not be extended, Damian Green, Home Office minister, told the House of Commons. He was cheered by those MPs who have opposed the regime, which has been a magnet for controversy since it was introduced by Tony Blair’s Government. “This Government is clear that the power to detain terrorist suspects for up to 28 days before they were charged or released was meant to be an exceptional power. This was always Parliament’s intention,” Mr Green told the Commons “But under the last Government it became the norm, with the renewal of 28 days
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