Very much so.
I’d say this fits in well with Mahmood’s restructuring of police forces to take centralised financial control over all of them.
- Make the police the arbiter of civil rights “No, you’ve used up your annual protest quota last month, come back next year”
- Control the decisions of the police, with a strong flavouring of treating everything the Home Secretary dislikes through a counterterrorism filter.
Imagine that with Rupert Lowe in charge.