Operational note: Metropolitan Police Authority conference ‘Together Against Terror?’ - widening the debate with London's communities

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11 December 2005

Date: 12 December 2005
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: Central Westminster Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster SW1H 9NH.

The conference will be open all day to the press. Press conference at 11.45am with Len Duvall (Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority) Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty) and Chris Fox (President of the Association of Chief Police Officers).

Len Duvall, Chair of the MPA, Cindy Butts and Reshard Auladin, deputy chairs of the MPA and Lord Toby Harris, member of the MPA, will be available for interview before the event and on the day.

Please contact:

• MPA Press Office; 020 7202 0217/0218
• MPA Duty Press Officer pager: 07659 127 087

Speaking at the conference:

• 09:30-10:30
  The terrorist threat? How real is it, and how new?
  Sir Ian Blair (Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service)
  Sir John Gieve (Permanent Secretary, Home Office)
• 10:30-11:30
  How reasonable is lethal force? Do the ends justify the means?
  Chris Fox (President, Association of Chief Police Officers)
  Dr Shahrar Ali (Executive Member, Society for Applied Philosophy & Editor, Philosophy Today)
• 12:15-13:15
  Divided we stand? Which counter terrorism tactics command public support?
  Nuala O'Loan (Police Ombudsman Northern Ireland)
  Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (Leader, The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain)
• 14:15-15:15
  Liberty versus security? Must we choose between our safety and our rights?
  Shami Chakrabarti (Director, Liberty)
  Lord Toby Harris (Member, Metropolitan Police Authority & Executive Member, Association of Police Authorities)
• 15:30-16:30
  Scaremongers and sensationalists? Do the media inform or alarm?
  Martin Brunt (Crime Correspondent, Sky News)
  Jeff Edwards (Crime Reporter, Daily Mirror & Chair, Crime Reporters Association)

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