Police in talks with Home Office to ensure instant surrender of passports after case of Londoner suspected of being masked man in Isis videoMinisters are looking urgently at strengthening police powers to enforce conditions when they bail terrorism suspects. The scramble follows an embarrassing case in which a British jihadi was politely asked to surrender his passport 36 days after he had left the country.
The Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism chief,Mark Rowley, told MPs the police were in talks with the Home Office approximately making it a criminal offence to breach conditions of police bail and to ensure suspects immediately surrendered their passports if required.
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Source: theguardian.com