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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-08-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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Barry Coy drives an expensive-looking car. For most people, such cars are a guarantee of extrapolite treatment from the police. But not for Barry.
He has sometimes been stopped as many as five times in one evening on suspicion of stealing the car. 'It gets to the point,' he says 'where I can never guarantee to be anywhere on time because I know I will be held up by the police.' It is so bad that he has stopped driving and gets lifts from friends instead. He plans to sell his car and get a cheaper one.
What's the problem? Barry Coy is a young West Indian. And evidently the police in Merseyside where Barry lives, can't believe it's right for a young West Indian to have an expensive car.
The total number of people in Northern Ireland pulled in by the police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act has now reached 1680, according to the latest official figures [up to March 31, 1982].
The PTA, introduced in November 1974 supposedly as a short-term emergency measure, gives police the power to grrest and detain people without charge for 48 hours.
They can hold people longer on the say-so of the
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Orgamiser no.3.7 August 26 1982 Page