The Government is planning a change in the law to allow police to arrest suspects without evidence, it was claimed today. The Law Society said it believed the new powers would be included in the Bill which will create the new British FBI. It warned that the cumulative effect of the Government's clampdown on crime and terrorism would be a step towards a police state. Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's chief executive, said: "The Government is in serious danger of overstating the threat to public order and national security and bringing in draconian new laws, which will take away centuries of hard won rights. "If the Bill to establish the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) includes the power to arrest someone without evidence, then solicitors could not support it.

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