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Police may be given a new legal power allowing them to require people to "move on" from danger and crime scenes or to disperse crowds.
The Government has not yet reached a view on whether such a "move on" law should be introduced, but the extra police power is contained in a range of suggestions in a discussion paper issued by Police Commissioner Howard Broad yesterday.
The paper is the first step toward a rewrite of the almost 50-year-old Police Act.
It calls for consideration of the "move on" power, which would allow police to exclude someone from a ...
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