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State Research Bulletin Strikes: Queen’S Regulations the Atomic Police Published Bi-Monthly in April, June 9 Vetting Job Applicants August, October and December 1l,~"’;.' "'.'§'.':. i 35p Q1-n STATE RESEARCH / 9 POLAND STREET / LONDON W1 /01-734-5831 - F 1 r J I _ _ _ __ I 1 1 ,~—~_* i _ _ ________ _ . 1| 1 I ——~ _—* —-l_ — — L' ' J’ r I iii ' " '_ ____ __ _— — — — _ _' '——— , ,1" * — _ ,_ _ ;; I 4 _ ' . State Research ' Papers (which are available at 20p each inc. p&p): no. 1: The Institute for the An independent group of investigators Study of Conflict; no. 2: The Special collecting and publishing information Branch; no. 3: Secrecy and Security: from publicsources on developments in the background to the Official Secrets state policy, particularly in the fields of Acts and their use; no. 4: The Politics the law, policing, internal security, of Public Order. espionage and the military. It also exam- ines the links between the agencies in Contents these fields and business, the Right and paramilitary organisations. News and developments . 75-86 State Research Bulletin Strikes: Queen’s Regulations The Atomic Police Published bi-monthly in April, June 9 Vetting Job applicants August, October and December. Contri- Control of London’s Police butions to the Bulletin are welcomed; The Special Branch they should be sent to the above address. k The Right to Strike Subscriptions P Police Law and Order Campaign IDENTITY CARDS - THE ATOMIC POLICE - VETTING Crime: fact and fiction Subscribers receive: the bi-monthly Intemal security g JOB APPLICANTS - EEC SECURITY CO-OPERATION— 7 Bulletin, an annual Index, and an annual EEC Security Co-operation overview of the year. 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The first is when a U.S. Foreign Policy: Supplying Repression Vol. 1., will be published in the state of emergency is proclaimed under _ 4 4 _--.R.E_GULATIONS_ __ , , 4 4' __ _ by Michael Klare the 1920 Emergency Powers Act, ‘in a autumn by Julian Friedmann Publishers. Books and pamphlets received This will contain our year’s work in The Ministry Of Defence (MOD) are to situation where the supply and distribution of the essential of life to the hardback form, i.e. issues 1-7 of State Background Paper . 91-97 change the Queen’s Regulations for the Research Bulletin (October 1977- Army in order to legitimate the use of — community are extensively threatened ...’ (Reg. J11.004 a.). The second is ‘where September 1978), an introductory over- Identity Cards -— in war and peace troops in national strikes. This change view of the year and an index. Hardback will give the military a power which there is no proclamation and the (jacketed) £10.00. 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But another contradiction priority. an elected body or to the Home use of troops in national strikes the MOD remains, whether in a parliamentary Secretary’, and that their arms and new The AEA Constabulary powers ‘conflicts with all our traditions have announced that they intend to democracy the MOD and the Defence ' 1 simply delete the words ‘limited and Council should be allowed to simply of civilian and politically accountable local’ when the Regulations are next re-write the rules so as to give themselves The AEA Constabulary, currently 400 policing’. reprinted, thus giving themselves powers which parliament clearly never strong, recruits independently from the unlimited powers in this respect. Whether intended them to have. police. Its powers were originally defined Vetting and surv_eillance this will be a matter of weeks, months or by the Special Constables Act of 1923, years is not known. part of which allowed the creation of Three groups of people would become The 1964 Emergency Powers Act was as er PAILHE A-TQMICF POLICE W 1 specialised police forces to guard military subject to vetting and surveillance. All introduced in parliament, by Henry ‘What is the answer to the charge that ‘yards and stations’. These forces could the workers employed in the industry Brooke, the Conservative Home Secretary, fast breeder nuclear reactors will put our operate within a 15 mile radius of such would be ‘vetted’, so too would their premises. However, under the Atomic on the grounds that the 1920 Act only civil liberties at the mercy of an extended families and ‘known associates’. The Energy Authority (Special Constables) covered the use of troops in industrial armed constabulary with sweeping procedure would be similar to the Act 1976, the AEA Constabulary was disputes, and that the government wanted powers of arrest, answerable to no elected ‘positive vetting’ process carried out powers to use troops for other body, and of a secret service effectively given sweeping new and exceptional under the direction of the security contingencies — such as floods, severe answerable to no one? ’ (Mr. Leo Abse, powers. They are now allowed to carry service, MI5, of civil servants and winters, or bad harvests. The current House of Commons, 2/12/77). arms at all times; to engage in what is workers in the defence-contract industries wording of the Regulations accurately Neither of the questions posed by Mr. termed ‘hot pursuit’ of thieves or (this process is described in the Radcliffe reflect the intention of parliament which Abse have been satisfactorily answered. attempted thefts of nuclear materials; the Report: ‘Security Procedures in the Public Services’, Cmnd 1681, 1962). This passed the Act with little or no debate, First, the Atomic Energy Authority right to enter any premises at will; and given its uncontroversial nature (there (AEA) Constabulary, who guard nuclear the power to arrest on suspicion. The Act entails detailed, private, and intimate was a short debate on the second reading, installations and the movement of also removed the 15-mile limits placed by knowledge of a prospective employee and and it was passed without a vote being plutonium, were given far-reaching new the 1923 Act on their jurisdiction, and her or his acquaintances. taken). powers by Act of Parliament in 1976. substituted the word ‘property’ for By far the largest group to be affected Until 1977 the power granted under Second, because of a presumed terrorist ‘premises’ to cover both installations and (almost certainly without their knowledge) the 1964 Act (S.2.) had only been used threat, there would be an even greater nuclear material in transit. The Royal will be those placed under surveillance by in ‘limited’ and ‘local’ situations, twice need for the security service (MI5) to Commission estimated that the number the security service (and the Special in Glasgow for strikes by firemen and vet all the workers directly involved of transfers (by road and rail) of Branch) who they consider to be dustmen, and during a dustmens strike in together with their families and plutonium between installations will be ‘potential’ terrorists. During the the London borough of Tower Hamlets in acquaintances, and for much wider several hundred a year by the year 2000, Windscale inquiry the Department of 1970. surveillance of the population to spot and several thousands by 2030. Energy was asked to define exactly who The critical distinction between the potential terrorists and ‘subversives’, Although the powers of the AEA might fall into this category.
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