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Partial Military Policy Revamp #615

Closed Xyleneb closed 7 years ago

Xyleneb commented 7 years ago

Changes: Security Industry Authority given the responsibility of managing PMSCs. Compulsory publication of all PMSC operations within 3 years (as in not just "Defence Inc - Iraq" but "Defence Inc - Helmand Province, Iraq Operational Objective: Etcetera"). Publication of killed/missing lists changed from annual to quarterly. Return to public ownership of MoD site operation (not associated with runway/aircraft training). "What is 'autonomous'?" is given a definition ("electrically autonomously discharged"). "Lethal" is removed - to prevent drones from autonomously firing tasers or CS gas.

If anyone has any problem with any of the changes then I can split them up and submit them separately. Otherwise tell me what you want changed and I'll try to add it.

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Xyleneb commented 7 years ago

EDIT: I'll copypaste the "Return to public ownership of MoD site operation (not associated with runway/aircraft training)" policy into here, and submit it separately if this passes. Reading the document was confusing with it in there.

Proprietary Test Facilities

We will ask all companies contracted to operate Ministry of Defence sites to separate their testing and evaluation businesses from their civil and military training businesses. Contracts for MoD test facilities will then be allowed to expire and all weapons test grounds will return to public ownership, allowing weapons to be assessed based on their merits rather than their profit incentive.

Now the changes should be legible.

Xyleneb commented 7 years ago

Note also for later: Putting the SIA as specifically in charge is a potential regression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Industry_Authority#The_Future_of_the_SIA

openpolitics-bot commented 7 years ago

Closed automatically: maximum age exceeded. Please feel free to resubmit this as a new proposal, but remember you will need to base any new proposal on the current policy text.