Police officers will not need to wait for protests to take place before shutting them down and will be able to target long-running campaigns under new plans to be announced by Rishi Sunak on Monday.
Rishi Sunak plans to give wider powers to the police to tackle"highly disruptive and dangerous protests".the already controversial Public Order BillA government statement said it would give officers"greater flexibility and clarity over when to intervene to stop the disruptive minority who use tactics such as blocking roads and slow marching to inflict misery on the public".
In practice, the move would allow forces to shut protests down before any disruption takes place, consider the total impact of a series of protests rather than individual incidents, and target long-running campaigns. Mr Sunak will say he is answering a call from police chiefs"for more clarity to crack down on these guerrilla tactics", adding:"The right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy, but this is not absolute.
"A balance must be struck between the rights of individuals and the rights of the hard-working majority to go about their day-to-day business. "We cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public. It's not acceptable and we're going to bring it to an end."
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