"We feel,based on our experience in the last seven years, we feel that we need to enhance our legal capacity to extend the power of detention and the power of detention without charge,".
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
MPs discussed the issue of pre-charge detention which the coalition has committed to cutting to 14 days.
Crossbencher Lord Dear, who led Lords moves in 2008 to veto 42-day pre-charge detention, said the current DPP's views should have "considerable weight".
If you say we are going to preserve the liberties of this country and the case for extending pre-charge detention which used to be forty eight hours remember - long time ago.