The Metropolitan Police invited Rebecca Lush Blum - who organised the 'Turn your back on Thatcher' protest in 2013 - to attend a seminar to discuss police liaison with protesters. She refused in this powerful letter ...
… have nothing to gain from liaising with police Rececca Lush Blum | 2nd February 2014 Comment UK Protest Police Politics thatcher-funeral.png The Metropolitan Police invited Rebecca Lush Blum - who …
Rural policing is overstretched and under-resoursed, and the countryside's wildlife could be suffering as a result. LESLEY DOCKSEY reports
… September 2018 Comment Wildlife Countryside Police badger-2030975_960_720.jpg Rural … sheds. One constant headache for both police and local authorities is … or more – that’s a lot of driving for rural police who are also policing the local towns. …
Police violence has been a running theme in the anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss. Individual officers are acting with impunity. Is this a deliberate strategy to disrupt the protests on behalf of vested interests? David Cullen investigates ...
… Moss: who is policing Greater Manchester Police? David Cullen | 9th April 2014 News … Fuels Fracking Society Politics kris.jpg Police violence has been a running theme in … camp at Barton Moss, was filming three police officers arresting a protester. Video …
Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians. Alex Summerchild reports ...
… Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police Alex Summerchild | 12th December 2013 … and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians. Alex … Romanian State, extreme brutality from riot police, and behind it all the US army general …
How will the police respond to environmental direct action groups like Extinction Rebellion as climate breakdown reaches critical mass?
… Dr. Aidan O'Sullivan | 4th July 2019 News Police Protests er2004a.jpg How will the police respond to environmental direct action … Rebellion” in April 2019. The Metropolitan Police Service arrested over 1,100 protesters …
The brutality, pain, mourning, and anger as police evict the village of Lützerath to enable energy giant RWE to mine lignite coal.
… The brutality, pain, mourning, and anger as police evict the village of Lützerath to … RWE to mine lignite coal. Videos of German police stuck in the deep mud in their heavy … monk-wizard dancing around and pushing over a police officer are making the rounds. Read: …
Kent Police admit stop and search operation was a violation of human rights and agree to pay compensation to three protesters
… Police to pay compensation to Kingsnorth … Climate Camp Climate Change Protest g20c.jpg Police have faced criticism from MPs and … over their tactics at climate protests Kent Police admit stop and search operation was a …
NFU running police control rooms. Violent 'bounty-hunting' badger shooters in the woods at dead of night, none too bothered about the finer points of law. Confused, ill-informed police bearing prejudice against 'protestors' ... It's all a recipe for a big mess, writes Lesley Docksey.
… Natural World badger-200-cut.jpg NFU running police control rooms. Violent 'bounty-hunting' … finer points of law. Confused, ill-informed police bearing prejudice against 'protestors' … It was going to be a long night. In the police badger control room at Police HQ, …
With the recent spate of police aggression, intimidation and infiltration of the environmental movement, the Ecologist asks if these tactics are turning people away from protests?
… Do aggressive and subversive police tactics put-off environmental … Tom Antebi | 9th February 2011 News Police Climate Camp Activists Climate Change Protests g20c.jpg Police tactics have been heavily criticised …
Post Brexit, get ready for a massive attack on our liberty, especially on the right to protest, writes Paul Mobbs. With the UK likely to secede from the European Convention on Human Rights, prepare for a new empowerment of police to act with impunity against peaceful activists. We must be ready to stand up, with honour and dignity, for our ancient British right to dissent.
… Rights, prepare for a new empowerment of police to act with impunity against peaceful … meet a man called John Bugg. He was a former policeman who had undergone a change of … chaos for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) police - who at that time were trying to keep …
In its report on last year's pilot badger culls, the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) judged that the culls failed the criteria for effectiveness and humaneness, but satisfied those for safety, writes Lesley Docksey. The facts say otherwise.
… Police, Guns, Action - how safe were the pilot … unknown. Rampant criminality - all ignored by police Clearly rules were not being followed. … (cullers) were also acting illegally, and the police were unprepared for this. Licences …
Climate Camp activists are expecting more aggressive police tactics this summer
… Police hostility will not stop us, say … Climate Change Politics And Economics Protest Police Climate Camp Take Action g20c.jpg … Camp activists are expecting more aggressive police tactics this summer Police tactics at …
After anti-fracking protestors scored an important legal victory at Barton Moss, Manchester Police responded with outright violence and intimidation. The message was clear: 'Never mind the Courts and Judges. We are are the law.'
… Police attack Barton Moss anti-fracking … legal victory at Barton Moss, Manchester Police responded with outright violence and … the brutal backlash from Greater Manchester Police and its Tactical Aid Unit (TAU). This …
Days after our exposé of a policing disaster at England's 2013 badger culls, the Police Commissioner for Gloucestershire is to question the county's most senior police officers. The event will be video-streamed online.
… Badger cull - police face public grilling from Commissioner … disaster at England's 2013 badger culls, the Police Commissioner for Gloucestershire is to question the county's most senior police officers. The event will be …
10,000 police officers will be deployed daily at the COP26 summit - one of the largest policing operations ever undertaken in Britain.
… Extensive police training ahead of COP26 Neil Pooran | … Summit 48867375907_2a38b89313_c.jpg 10,000 police officers will be deployed daily at the … in the run-up to the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, Police Scotland has said. Specialist training …
An internal police document has confirmed what many have long suspected: the Police Liaison Officers 'facilitating' protests and demonstrations are not just there to make friends - they play a 'pivotal role' in intelligence gathering.
… Smiling spies: Police Liaison Officers exposed The Ecologist … 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Protest UK Police blue-bibs-cut.jpg An internal police document has confirmed what many have …
With daily revelations about police spying on activists, we need an independent judicial investigation into the scale and nature of infiltration and use of agents provocateurs, says Ratcliffe defendant Dan Glass
… Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a … Comment g20c.jpg With daily revelations about police spying on activists, we need an … information regarding the role of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, the prosecution …
For Salford school half term, yesterday was designated Children's Day at the Barton Moss Community Protection Camp with crafts, balloons and games. In between the fun, local families witnessed the full force of the Greater Manchester Police Tactical Aid Unit.
… the full force of the Greater Manchester Police Tactical Aid Unit. Greater Manchester Police yesterday tried to force old ladies, … drilling site. "The attitude they [the police] came with today was one of conflict …
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
… assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers Josie Appleton | 26th June 2015 … UK Commons Human Rights wmp-patrol-cut.jpg UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal … Act , passed last October, has given the police a roaming power to bar people from …
Kris O'Donnell, a peaceful cameraman and Legal Observer at Barton Moss anti-frack camp, was attacked by Greater Manchester police yesterday. He is under arrest in hospital with a broken eye socket.
… Manchester Police break anti-fracker's eye socket The … 21st January 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Police kris.jpg Kris O'Donnell, a peaceful … camp, was attacked by Greater Manchester police yesterday. He is under arrest in …
Human rights lawyer Adam Wagner called the Metropolitan Police ban on all further protest by XR in London 'draconian and extremely heavy-handed'.
… October 2019 News Change Makers Metropolitan Police Extinction Rebellion Right To Protest … lawyer Adam Wagner called the Metropolitan Police ban on all further protest by XR in … are launching legal action against the police over a London-wide ban on their …
Protestor support group Green and Black Cross has publicly criticised Extinction Rebellion's record on safety, security and policing.
… 2019 News Extinction Rebellion GBC Protest Police Thought Leaders shell_xr.jpg Protestor … guidance and are independent witnesses of police behaviour at protests”. GBC says that … used for legal observers allow for the police to access that information. GBC’s …
The Crown Prosecution Service said 105 cases were being discontinued against Extinction Rebellion supporters.
… XR charges dropped as police acted unlawfully Margaret Davis | 28th … November 2019 News Extinction Rebellion XR Police Climate Breakdown Change Makers … change protesters who were arrested under a police order that was later ruled to be …