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Off Beat: Leaked British Plan Would Turn Doctors, Social Workers Into Police Informants

Andrew Heining writes on csmonitor.com:

The British government is weighing a plan that would require civil servants – including social workers and doctors – to report people deemed likely to commit acts of violence in the interest of stopping crimes before they are committed, according to a leaked official document.

The Times of London reports that the British Home Office's internal document on "multi-agency information sharing" – which the newspaper received from a senior British official – would allow government agencies better access to information on potential threats.

posted by Fergie @ 5/21/2007 05:13:00 PM