David Davis' Resignation and fight over civil liberty

[Roland Perry]

In article <48521DAE.9020707@callnetuk.com>, PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> 
writes
>the police's alleged need to decrypt documents found on a suspect's 
>computer is regularly trotted out to justify any proposal for extended 
>detention.

It seems to me that this is solving the wrong problem. What we need is a 
regime that allows people to be held upon "minor" charges while the 
major charges continue to be investigated with evidence and statements 
collected from the alleged perpetrators. What I struggle to understand 
is why there needs to be a hard deadline to "put up or shut up". As long 
as there's *some* belief (backed by sufficient evidence to persuade a 
court) that one lot of mischief is proven sufficiently to detain them, 
but there's still more to look into.
-- 
Roland Perry