As several outlets are reporting today,
Harrow Council... wants 2,000 people - one for every 100 residents - to sign up as a "Neighbourhood Champion" and report minor crimes, anti-social behaviour, litter and vandalism.
As always, these "policies" are failure-driven. To drive for a better police force never seems to cross the minds of those who propose snoopers' charters.
Furthermore, as I've discussed elsewhere in the context of handing local government and quangoes vast new seizure and intrusion powers, there seems to be no "joined up thinking" on offer from our masters, either - Alan Johnson has had to tell councils to cut back on their surveillance, after the uproar over Poole council spying on a family over their school catchment area, so instead, councils are now trying to get us to spy on one another!
If they’re “successful” it will lead to even less trust and ever more surveillance. An Orwellian culture depends on everyone spying on everyone else – just as Harrow wants.
By Alex Deane
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