Leicester City Council's street wardens are having their enforcement powers extended to help stop the problem.
They fear the Bush administration may seek broad new law enforcement powers that go beyond terrorism.
They fear the Bush administration may seek broad new law enforcement powers that go beyond fighting terrorism.
To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers.
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As first conceived, it would have had enforcement powers and tried to pre-empt state failure, not just cure it.
Other enforcement powers open to the SCS for collecting outstanding fines include arresting wages, deducting benefits and freezing bank accounts.
It added that it was continuing to monitor the company and would use "enforcement powers" if further improvements were not made.
Taking some powers from the Fed and other bank regulators, this would have broad rule-writing and enforcement powers over mortgages, credit cards and the like.
Proponents of contingency-fee lawyers say they provide valuable enforcement powers the state at no cost to taxpayers, and level the playing field against well-heeled corporations.
Its leading proponent is Thomas Perez, the Justice Department official Mr. Obama nominated to be secretary of labor, a department whose enforcement powers blanket the workplace.
Last May, Brown chaired a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing on potential reforms to WARN, including giving the Department of Labor and state Attorney Generals enforcement powers.
The minister responded that the government was moving quickly, focusing on regulation of the scrap metal industry and stronger enforcement powers to bring those carrying out the crimes to justice.
And asserting control over the prime minister's powers in office is not the only area where Israel's state prosecution uses its law enforcement powers to advance its politically-uniform membership's political agenda.
How do we create new institutions with enforcement powers way beyond the current mandate of the U.N.? Could we ensure against a malevolent dictator who might abuse the power of such organizations?
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While the Republicans who now control the House of Representatives generally support privacy, they are unlikely to support any bill to expand the enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission, GOP congressional aides say.
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Keith Brown, Scotland's minister for transport and veterans, said the blue badge scheme was a "lifeline" for thousands of disabled people in Scotland and it made sense to consult on options for tightening enforcement powers.
She said fines for firms paying migrants less than the minimum wage should be doubled, councils should be given new enforcement powers to target rogue businesses and landlords and more opportunities created for British workers in sectors with high levels of foreign recruitment.
Mr. ANTHONY ROMERO (Executive Director, ACLU): At a time when the Bush administration has tried to argue for even broader law enforcement powers and this idea of a unilateral president, where you have these inherent powers accrue to him because of the war on terror, it's a very strong rejection of that argument.
They were very clear that there is a problem that must be addressed to give law enforcement agencies the powers they need to fight crime.
The grisly murder in Woolwich has prompted calls for Britain's government to look again at a shelved bill that would greatly expand law enforcement's powers to monitor suspects' use of the internet, which is currently only possible on a more limited basis.
In December 2000, 23 organisations, banding together under the banner of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), signed a letter condemning the 25th draft of the treaty as "appalling", and warned that it handed law enforcement agencies sweeping powers to snoop and could seriously erode online privacy.
Kerr also pointed out that there's a conflict of interest when the executive branch, which oversees law enforcement in the state, is in a position to block laws that would limit the powers of law enforcement.
Internal investigations allow an organisation to maintain control and keep things quiet, but law-enforcement agencies have broader powers.
An agency called the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf decides on the merits of the case, but it has no powers of enforcement.
This failure can only be corrected if the councils give up either their powers of enforcement to local police or some other entity disinterested in the financial outcome of such enforcement or give up the financial benefit from penalty notices.
It doesn't have the powers to take enforcement action, we have to pass that information to the Health and Safety Executive.
The system, called key-escrow, would give police and other law enforcement bodies wide-ranging powers to intercept e-mail, read confidential documents and tap into systems, without monitoring by the courts.
What is very uncertain is who will exercise the new powers of scrutiny and enforcement.
Sutcliffe has been looking at different ways of increasing the powers of the drug enforcement agencies during the 2012 Games.
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