Those who fail to comply with the requirement to be fingerprinted under clause 3 will be criminalised.
Only rarely have people been fingerprinted and then not been charged with a fairly serious offence.
However, in this country even when children are fingerprinted simply to eliminate them from inquiries—to protect them—they are worried about it.
If we were to give such widespread powers, it could allow the whole population to be fingerprinted.
In normal circumstances it is only criminals or suspected criminals that are fingerprinted.
Is it right that our constituents should be handcuffed, photographed, fingerprinted and placed in cells?
They were not fingerprinted, and neither were they arrested.
I certainly did not mean to suggest that they had been fingerprinted.
