police surveillance
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Spycops political policing: Starmer, sexual assault and serious crimes
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is back this week, to hear much delayed evidence about some of the most controversial events in the history of the highly criticised spycops unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Live hearings begin this Monday, 21 October, at 2pm, and will look at deployments from 1983-1992. Continue reading
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UK: Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements
How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated activists” – the new label applied to those taking action that challenges state and corporate interests? Continue reading
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A ‘duty of candour’ must extend to the policing of protests
Last week’s condemnation of proposed government restrictions on protests in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as “oppressive and wrong” by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has somewhat overshadowed its call for greater openness and transparency over the way the police impose restrictions on protests. Continue reading
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G7 Summit police confused about duty to protect freedom of assembly
Protests against the forthcoming G7 summit, from 11-13 June in Carbis Bay in Cornwall, are expected to face a huge policing operation that includes exclusion zones and around 6500 officers from around the country. A coalition of organisations under the banner “Resist G7” are organising demonstrations on each day of the summit and separately, Extinction… Continue reading
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Netpol’s guide to resisting police surveillance
The last few weeks have seen police mount a huge evidence gathering operation, tracking and targeting people for arrests and fines. Thousands have been filmed, photographed and logged on police databases after protesting against sweeping new police powers. Continue reading
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24 November 2020: What happened last week at the spycops inquiry
The public was largely shut out – only given official access to a live stream in a room in London, online it was limited to a live transcript which was a real eye strain to read for hours on end. Once again, it fell to those abused by spycops to being the truth to the… Continue reading
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Spycops monthly roundup, March 2020
Here’s this month’s roundup of news from the campaign for truth and justice about Britain’s political secret police. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 