Community Accreditation Scheme comment

12 February 2007

Jan Berry, Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, says:
 
“The University should take responsibility for the safety of students and staff on campus, but it is quite a different matter to provide those people with coercive powers. The Police Federation believe the state should only place such powers in the hands of fully accountable, politically independent constables.
 
The Police Federation were opposed to the provision of police style powers to Community Accreditation Schemes from the outset as we believe this is effectively another way of bringing in private policing”

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