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Posted by: Chris Goodman (Wednesday 16 August 2006, 2:38 PM)

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Perhaps it is time that civil servants like Simon Watkin were moved on. He appears to be one of the senior ranking civil servants who are somewhat usurping what should be politicians' decisions.
As a former Private Secretary to David Blunkett I dare to ask how he feels qualified to make the decision to implement this very controversial Section of the RIP Act.
As one involved in preparation of the Act he should most certainly NOT be in any way related to it's implementation.
Perhaps he should remember that the primary duty of police is to PREVENT crime - in this context to eliminate the paedophilia from the internet, which would in turn prevent its' downloading onto computers and the criminilisation of the downloaders.

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