I was amazed and appalled to hear of the desire to eavesdrop on everyone's phone calls and access e-mails.
This is an infringement of human rights and hardly fits with a democracy.
To combat crime the application to eavesdrop should only be made with evidence of a very good reason to do this, which I have always understood to be the procedure.
As far as I can see the normal policing procedures are appropriate and adequate for most crimes.
Mrs P Johns,
Sandy Lane,
Stockton-on-the-Forest, York.
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