Police state?

This Cliff Richard business - I find it extremely worrying that apparently a warrant can be issued to enter and search your property on the basis of an untested allegation of wrongdoing, without you having any say in the matter, or even it seems being aware that it is going on.  I've had my say before about what I see as the "we'll arrest you now and hope to find the evidence later"  approach, but this seems to take matters even a step further to "we'll skip the arrest bit, and just go straight to trawling through your stuff in the hope of finding something which we can use against you".  Cart before horse springs to mind.