Well, I shall make sure I take more photos of transport infrastructure from now on.
With any recession the police flex their muscles, employ more brutal methods and seek to generally intimidate the population to limit the chance of any significant challenges to the system. They also seem to get excellent pay rises during such periods. I wonder if Brown will reward them in the way that Thatcher did.
True BillMC, showing their tower of strength.
There do seem to be more and more cases of this happening...
Not allowing people to take photographs of 'tourist' areas etc. I keep putting off a day photographing in London because of this. I intend to take a tripod with me for night/sunset shots, but am sure it will be a real ball ache.
Look will you all just stop moaning about this! It' thread after thread, lets talk about nice things. Your are starting make me think that I live in a goverment organised police state were we are suposed to inform on each other! It's not fair you scaring me like this, I'm off to put me head in the sand.
i've emailed Gordon about your viewpoint mt
expect you library card to be cancelled by the morning
All part of the War On Tourism.
its all part of the Police's crackdown on freedom of thought, unfortunately they seem to have got the wrong end of the stick and are applying it to themselves.
In fairness, if you're going to walk around London looking like the guy on the right, you've got to accept a little harassment somewhere along the line.
In fairness, if you're going to walk around London looking like the guy on the right, you've got to accept a little harassment somewhere along the line.
haha, too right though.
But I'm wondering if we're allowed to video our rides in London as ..Matkza, was told that photographing anything to do with transport was "strictly forbidden"... geeez
Why doesn't it apply to newspapers as well then?
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What I don't understand; if they suspected that the two Austrians might be 'terrorists', why ffs did the coppers let them go ? 😯
Now I'm no terrorism expert, and I've never had any sort of counter-terrorism training, but I would hazard to guess that a potential terrorist might possibly be carrying a false passport ? And do terrorists really give the address of the hotel where they're staying ?
I'm sorry but a slap on the wrists and forcing them to delete their photos, does not feel like the appropriate action to take against a 'terrorist suspect' - what was to stop them coming back the next day and taking more photos ?
Or did the coppers think that after their stern 'telling off' the two dodgy foreigners would put a stop to all their terrorist malarkey ?
The police are suppose to be protecting us from terrorist attacks .... those two coppers sound like a right pair of amateurs. We must be the laughing stock of terrorists the would over right now 😯
I can't understand how the fuzz can make you delete your photographs. If you are committing an offence then the photographs are evidence and it is illegal to destroy evidence, if you have done nothing wrong then you do not have to delete anything.
If they ever try this with me I will be deleting nothing even if this results in a trip down to the police station - the sooner more people take this stance the sooner they will re-think this stupidity.
Proof, if it were needed, once again, that yer average Feelthy Coppeur is not very educated about aspects of the very Law which they are paid to uphold.
Once again, the Babylonians have abused their powers. These rozzers should be sacked. Set an example.
At this rate, we'll have none left by Christmas, and then the government will have to call in the Army...
FFS! Do you still need "O" levels to join the police force nowadays?
WTF! The police should arrest Google maps ... street view.
Welcome to 1984.
[url= http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836675 ]
[/url]The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target anyone who 'elicits or attempts to elicit information about (members of armed forces) ... which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.A person found guilty of this offence could be liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years, and to a fine.
The law is expected to increase the anti-terrorism powers used today by police officers to stop photographers, including press photographers, from taking pictures in public places. 'Who is to say that police officers won't abuse these powers,' asks freelance photographer Justin Tallis, who was threatened by an officer last week.
Tallis, a London-based photographer, was covering the anti-BBC protest on Saturday 24 January when he was approached by a police officer. Tallis had just taken a picture of the officer, who then asked to see the picture. The photographer refused, arguing that, as a press photographer, he had a right to take pictures of police officers.
According to Tallis, the officer then tried to take the camera away. Before giving up, the officer said that Tallis 'shouldn't have taken that photo, you were intimidating me'. The incident was caught on camera by photojournalist Marc Vallee.
Tallis is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the British Press Photographers' Association. 'The incident lasted just 10 seconds, but you don't expect a police officer to try to pull your camera from your neck,' Tallis tells BJP.
The incident came less than a week after it was revealed that an amateur photographer was stopped in Cleveland by police officers when taking pictures of ships. The photographer was asked if he had any terrorism connections and told that his details would be kept on file.
A Cleveland Police spokeswoman explained: 'If seen in suspicious circumstances, members of the public may well be approached by police officers and asked about their activities. Photography of buildings and areas from a public place is not an offence and is certainly not something the police wish to discourage. Nevertheless, in order to verify a person's actions as being entirely innocent, police officers are expected to engage and seek clarification where appropriate.'
So, the poor tourists haddunt actually broken any laws, or even come close.
Pathetic.
FFS! Do you still need "O" levels to join the police force nowadays?
No. [url= http://www.police-recruitment.com/Police-Entry-Requirements.php ]You don't actually require any academic qualifications whatsoever, apparently.[/url] Although the Scottish Babylon require some indication that you aren't an absolute imbecile, it seems.
I think half the problem lies here. We need better educated coppers. A-level standard should be the minimum.
Jeeesusss (pronounce in Spanish please)!!!
No academic qualifications!!! Damn! Wonder if that is for paramilitary?
FFS! Why are there so many unemployed people when they can just join the police paramilitary force.
We need better educated coppers. A-level standard should be the minimum.
Absolute nonsense. The level of university graduates joining the police force has never been higher.
In fact imo, that's part of the problem.
FFS! Uni graduates exercising their new found powwerrrr?
Uni graduates exercising their new found powwerrrr?
I don't think you're too far off the mark there ...... It's much more about 'power' than 'stupidity' imo.
In that case the education has failed them big time. Oh well ... mass production, I mean graduation, means quality suffers.
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I regularly walk around taking photographs of transport infrastructure.
I've never been approached by a rentacop.
However last year I did get told by a woman that she knew her rights and I wasn't allowed to take photographs that she might be in. I suggested that she might be sorely wrong as she was on private property.
Police?
My left bollcok!
I'll put a fiver on that fact that this was the actions of the Labour Party Staatssicherheit Politzei - otherwise known as the PCSO
In that case the education has failed them big time.
I guess it has if they went to Charm School.
I'll put a fiver
You're obviously very sure then ....... if you're prepared to risk that sort of money.
A friend of mines cousin is training to be a PCSO. We're taken bets on how quickly the indoctrination takes hold.
It's much more about 'power' than 'stupidity' imo.
Its both. Giving people that kind of power when the don't have the nouse to assess the situation.
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