The European Union is creating a device to give the cops the power to control cars by remotely switching off the engine. They secretly creating a "remote stopping" system that fitted to all cars that would allow the cops to turn off the engine at the flick of a switch from a control room. Confidential records from a panel of senior EU cops, who hold their conferences in secret, have set out a strategy entitled "remote stopping cars" as part of broader police surveillance and tracking measures.
"The venture will continue to perform on a technical solution that can be a 'build in standard' for all cars that get into the European market," said a restricted report. Police officers working from a computer screen in a main head office would trigger the gadgets, which could be in all new cars by the end of the decade. Once enabled, the engine of a car used by a fugitive or other suspect would stop; fuel supply would be cut and automatically turned off the ignition switch.
The technical innovation, planned for a six-year growth schedule, is targeted at providing risky high-speed car goes after to an end and to make repetitive current avoiding techniques such as spiking a car tires.
The offer was defined as aspect of the "key objectives" for the "European Network of Law Enforcement Technologies," or Enlets, a discreet offshoot of a European "working party" targeted at strengthening cops collaboration across the EU.
Statewatch, a watchdog watching cops abilities, state surveillance and civil liberties in the EU, have released the records among issues the technical innovation presents a serious risk to civil liberties
"We know about the problems around cops stop and searches, so why will be these cars stopped first," said Tony Bunyan, director of Statewatch.
"We also need to know if there is any proof that this is an extensive issue. Let's have some proof that this is a problem, and then let's have some recommendations on how this would be used."
The remote stopping and other monitoring plans have been signed off by the EU's Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security, known as Cosi, meaning the venture has the support of senior British Home Office civil servants and cops.
Cosi, which also meet in secret, was set up by the Lisbon EU Treaty in 2010 to create and apply what has appeared as a European internal security policy without the oversight of MPs in the House of Commons.
Douglas Carswell, the Traditional MP for Clacton , assaulted the plan for threatening civil liberties and for skipping the parliament.
"The price we pay for surrendering our democratic sovereignty is that we are controlled by an unaccountable discreet clique," he said.
Nigel Farage, the innovator of Ukip, described the measure as "incredible" and a "draconian imposition."
"It is terrible they are even thinking of it," he said. "People must hold a demonstration against this strike on their freedom and vote against an EU big Brother condition during the European election in May."
In 2012, Enlets got a £484,000 grant from the European Commission for its announced objective to "support front line monitoring and the battle against serious and organized legal activity by collecting customer specifications, checking and increasing attention of new technical innovation and best methods, benchmarking and providing advice."
The six-year work program for Enlets also contains enhancing automated plate number identification and intelligence sharing. Although the technical innovation for cops to stop a car remotely has still to be developed, Enlets claims the benefits of creating such a system. "Cars on the run can be risky for people," said a document. "Criminal violators will take risk to escape after a crime. Usually the cops cannot pursuit the criminal because of a lack of means to stop the car securely."
The release of avoiding devices has brought up questions of street safety. David Davis, the Traditional MP for Haltemprice and Howden, cautioned that the technology could pose risk to all motorists. "I would be interested to know what the state’s responsibility will be if they put these devices in all cars and one went off by chance while a car was doing 70mph on a freeway with a vehicle behind it leading to deaths," he said.
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