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Wed 11 Nov 2002Adams is critical of new policing legislationDraft new legislation on policing in the North will impose "a significant new restriction" on the ability of the Police Ombudsman to root out human rights abusers within the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the president of Sinn Féin, Mr Gerry Adams, said last night.Mr Adams said the British government had "missed an opportunity to put policing back on the Patten track" when it published the new legislation on Monday.