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Offers an account of the 1997 Police Act and the implications it will have. The volume covers such areas as when the police can give authorization to interfere with property or bug premises; how collaboration and mutual aid between police force will work under the new Act; when and how confidential personal information will be protected; what the Home Secretary's duties are under the Act; how the functions and supervision of the National Criminal Intelligence Service will be regulated; and whether job applicants can be compelled to disclose their criminal records.