"The danger is that with cuts to police budgets, police commissioners with the power to hire and fire police chiefs, this is really going to skew police resources in a political way, " she said.
The Criminal Justice and Police Act gives police the power to arrest kerb crawlers and force them to give fingerprints and DNA samples.
Plans to give police and intelligence services the power to monitor all email and internet use in the UK need a "fundamental rethink", Nick Clegg says.
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It is legal to use hands-free phones, sat-navs and two-way radios while driving or riding but the police have the power to stop and penalise users they think are distracted and not in control of the vehicle.
It also applies to state governments, with their supposedly unlimited police power to regulate health and safety.
On Thursday China said that it granted its border patrol police the power to board and search ships in the area.
That is why the Supreme Court has always ruled that the police power belongs to the states and not the federal government.
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Under the police reforms, the commissioner has the power to appoint and remove Chief Constables and is also responsible for controlling the police budget.
The recruitment process states that a Chief Constable is selected by the area's Police and Crime Commissioner, but the decision has to be approved by the Police and Crime Panel which has the power to veto the decision.
And how can we find structural ways to create a system that provides checks and balances to police power?
The party is also committed to cracking down on crime and anti-social behaviour, getting more police officers on to the street and handing more power to local people through referendums.
Holyrood's justice committee has issued an ultimatum to the new single police force and the Scottish Police Authority to resolve a so-called power struggle.
Police said parent firm Scottish and Southern Power was drafting in extra engineers from Scotland to try to recover the supply.
It reduced the power of old status quo police, and replaced them with market-oriented committees tasked to take wider technology and market views.
The reason I believe it matters is that this row is now about the power of politicians, the police and the press - the issues which, you may recall, triggered the Leveson inquiry.
Under the coalition's plans, commissioners in England and Wales will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set local police objectives, and the budget - but chief constables will remain in charge of the direction and control of the police force.
Henry Banda left the country shortly after his father lost power and is wanted by Zambian police.
The towering masked figure dances at the culmination of a series of other masquerades, protected by six 'police' and carrying a mirror with the power to draw in and punish evildoers.
But bounty-hunters have more power than the police, with far less training and accountability.
Top posts in the police and the security services, magnets for power-hungry Meciarites, have gone to neutral candidates.
Lives are at stake when the fire department needs a utility to shut off power to a downed line and the police department to block traffic in the area.
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They're the ones who organize the picnics, coach the hockey teams, run the condo association, put together the Town Budget, supervise the courts and the police and the highway crews, even the power grid.
Apparently, a 14-year old teenager in New Zealand doesn't visit Engadget (or use his brain) a whole lot -- you'd think that team of crooks who swiped a PlayStation, only to return for the power cord and eventually end up in police custody might have swayed him from doing the exact same thing.
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The commissioner, who will replace Nottinghamshire Police Authority, will have the power to choose chief constables and is expected to hold officers to account.
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Centralisers under Margaret Thatcher, they now want to devolve power to locally elected officials, including mayors and police chiefs.
They will replace police authorities made up of local councillors and will have the power to hire and fire chief constables.
The team was due to leave on Friday as police tightened security at government offices, nuclear power plants, airports and railway stations.
Mr Kurbanov says it is not in his power to fire a police chief, since both the police and security services answer to Moscow.
And the Home Office proposes to give the police the power to take DNA from people who have convictions pre-dating the database.
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