POWERS OF THE POLICE
SIR,—How is it that, using a house warrant, Special Branch Police can seize a citizen's personal address book and dairy and, without a charge being preferred, keep these for upwards of six weeks, in spite of assurances at the time that they would be returned in a few days?
This has happened to me. The 'receipt' the police gave was a scruffy torn-off piece of paper, written in pencil, with a woman officer's signature, but giving no reference or address to contact. However, understand that, legally, they need not even have given me a receipt for the goods seized. I am only one of a number of Committee of 100 members to whom this has happened.
It is also rather strange that at the same time as this investigation is going on, committee mem- bers have received letters which have taken three, and in one case six, days to get from the other side of London. But perhaps one should no longer be surprised. There also seems to in some misunderstanding: we are not a clandestine organisation.
27 Redington Road, NW3
JANE BUXTON
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