Guardian: UK police requests to access phone calls or emails are granted 93% of the time http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-phone-calls-emails-granted-every-two-minutes Big Brother Watch Report (based on FOI requests): http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/w...-Watch-Report-Police-Communications-Data1.pdf Cognoscenti may appreciate this, from the Guardian article:- Ch Supt Stephen Graham, head of the West Midlands Police intelligence department, said: .... “People may think that it is an extension of police powers when all it is doing is giving us the ability to do what we already do.”
