Because the states have police powers under the Constitution, Mr. Romney's plan posed no legal problems.
Police powers to breathalyse motorists suspected of drinking and driving are to be clarified.
Mr Attwood also wants to give police powers to randomly stop drivers without the need for reasonable suspicion.
Consequently, the 1980s was characterised by increased police powers and police spending, stiffer sentences and a rising prison population.
There are some who are wondering if that has created a opening for Interpol to have extraordinary police powers in the United States.
But officers say giving police powers to civilians will lower standards and have cautioned against giving stop and detain powers to under-trained members of the public.
He said he planned to use the money to recruit civilian staff to roles that were currently done filled by police officers but did not require police powers.
Legal experts in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's centre-left coalition of Social Democrats and Greens have warned against giving the police powers, arguing they are forbidden by Germany's post-war constitution.
All courts rely on the police powers of governments to enforce the law, and police regularly make calculations about how much effort they can expend to catch specific suspects.
More recently, however, Justice Thomas has been siding with greater police powers, casting Justice Scalia into a minority with liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Sports have bureaucratic structures: national and international associations, which have police powers to insure standardization, and which organize competitions and tournaments in order to produce No. 1 teams and world champions.
The proposal to expand police powers for collecting online data caused uproar among privacy advocates in late 2012, but the government says more robust surveillance tools are now needed to effectively combat terrorism.
Bond still has to convince a court that the federal law she was sentenced under somehow intruded upon the police powers of the states, or took away some essential right of the states to control the use of noxious chemicals within their borders.
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But, sensitive to criticisms of dawn raids inflicted on executives--at Coca-Cola, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom in the last few years--Monti says he has strengthened the EU's American-style "whistle-blowing" legislation so he can get the evidence he needs without having to rely so heavily on his police powers.
His view was echoed by Sinn Fein's Pat Sheehan who said that, although he was not opposed in principle to giving police more powers, his party had difficulty with the original motion because the PSNI had not asked for more powers, and the best results came from police and statutory community agencies working together.
Thirdly, we are giving local communities and police the powers they need to enforce respect on the street.
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Another target of the rallies was proposed new legislation to give the police greater powers to control demonstrations.
We asked the police what powers they wanted and gave them to them.
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"RoSPA would like to see the police given powers to breath test people anywhere and at any time, " he said.
The special rules that give the police extraordinary powers do not lapse unless Parliament expressly passes a resolution annulling the state of emergency.
The Lib Dems are considering their support for government plans to give the police new powers to monitor email and internet use, the BBC has learned.
The laws it referred to give police sweeping new powers and change electoral regulations governing voter registration.
Farmers' Union of Wales legal director Barrie Jones said police had some powers under the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
When the CIA was established under the National Security Act of 1947, it was designed strictly as an intelligence agency, without police or military powers.
Twice police used emergency powers in July 2009 and October 2010 to take her from her mother, but Kaiya was returned with "undue haste" the report said.
Among the changes he suggested are replacing Egypt's draconian emergency law, in place since Mr Mubarak assumed power in 1981, with anti-terror legislation that would grant police similar sweeping powers.
Jim Wells for the DUP said that his party wanted the police to have powers to deal with situations of anti-social behaviour where the committing of a crime could be pre-empted.
As I reported on Radio 4 last night, the Government and police do have powers to shut down communications services, but - despite the Prime Minister's statement - they currently have no plans to use them.
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