The governments Home Affairs Department is currently consulting on a new Criminal Justice Bill prior to pushing it through Tynwald. (image: IOM Government)
The governments Home Affairs Department is currently consulting on a new Criminal Justice Bill prior to pushing it through Tynwald. (image: IOM Government)

If there was a `Nobel Prize for hypocrisy' the Isle of Man government would probably be a prime contender. The governments Home Affairs Department is currently consulting on a new Criminal

If there was a `Nobel Prize for hypocrisy' the Isle of Man government would probably be a prime contender.

The governments Home Affairs Department is currently consulting on a new Criminal Justice Bill prior to pushing it through Tynwald.

Part 10 of the Bill will `beef-up' penalties for improper use of telecommunications systems.

However the most mysterious and high profile (still unresolved controversy) of recent years was the Isle of Man governments decision to allow the tapping of some of its own police officers phones!

See related link:

CONSULATATION EXTENDED BUT STASI STYLE POWERS FOR MANX POLICE ON THE WAY

at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celtic_league/message/3184

J B Moffatt Director of Information Celtic League

16/12/09

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