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Tue 11 Nov 2002Grasping the policing nettle has potential benefits all roundAnalysis: Impetus is at last being injected into the all-party talks, writes Gerry Moriarty, Northern EditorPolitics needed to shift into a faster gear, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen, said at last Thursday's multi-party talks. And that's precisely what happened yesterday with the British government's publication of draft new policing legislation.