10,000 MORE POLICE ON THE STREETS

 EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO CRIME 

By getting rid of Labour’s expensive and ineffective ID card scheme, we could pay for 10,000 more police than Labour is planning. We also will give the police the technology to spend more time on the street, and less time tied to the desk.

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  Civil Liberties - Policy Briefing - February 2005
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Lib Dems say no to ID cards!

Expensive Introducing Labour’s mandatory ID card scheme is likely to cost the taxpayer between £12 - 18 billion for the new combined ID cards and passports. Lib Dems say spend the oney on preventing crime instead! We would put 10,000 more police on our streets.

Ineffective Spain’s ID cards did not prevent the Madrid atrocities. Stella Rimington, the ex-head of MI5, says "I don’t think that anybody in the intelligence services ... would be pressing for ID cards".

Intrusive The Home Secretary can require some types of people to register, by ’proscribing’ a group. This is likely to apply to foreign nationals at first but will eventually apply to the entire population.