Three months or 90 days is a long time in prison without charge, especially if you are innocent.
The Prime Minister pushed for this period because the police supposedly want more time to gather evidence.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair should have mentioned to him that the simple answer is to recruit more police instead of running the police force down and bringing in part-timers and community support officers, as Labour has done.
-Don Franklin, Brighton
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