[IMC-UK-Features] political policing / police state feature & I quit

[Olga Rodriguez]

Hello, I think this article should also mentioned the publication of the Joint Committee on Human Rights' report on Policing and Protest (just published). The report is titled: 'Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest'
This is the link to the report:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200809/jtselect/jtrights/47/4702.htm

This a link to indymedia article on this report:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424779.html

Olga




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Subject: Re: [IMC-UK-Features] political policing / police state feature & I quit

Hi,
Are we happy for this article to go up now? Seems very relevant - in fact, it probably should have gone up sooner!
Iggy.



Last week a report was made to parliament  [link] into the abuse of police powers during the climate camp protests at Kingsnorth in 2008. The report [link] and accompanying video [link] documented systemic abuses of power including blanket stop and searches, arbitrary seizure of property, and a campaign of phycological intimidation which included sleep deprivation through helicopter overflying late into the night, mock night and dawn raids by tooled up riot police, and the infamous 'Flight of the Valkyries' incident.

Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission [link].

David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said [link], “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing."

The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists [link] as well as harassing sympathetic journalists. The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of 'the summer of rage' in [link] which they began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression of the right to protest.

below are some of the links for the feature

links:

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424120.html
Police 'turn themselves in' over abuse of power claims

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424121.html
Report into police tactics at Kingsnorth climate change protest released

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423345.html
Summer of rage? It's a figment of febrile imaginations

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423055.html
Senior police officer warns of “summer of rage”

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423750.html
Protest against police state

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/423022.html
Britain 2009 (are we in a police state?)

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423945.html
Right to protest under attack from state


https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424120.html
Police 'turn themselves in' over abuse of power claims

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424002.html
Climate camp cops feel heat - piece about filming of protesters / journalists at the camp

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/406021.html
over-policing

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423696.html
Police maintaining special database of thousands of political activists


why the police riot (parts 1 - 6)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422077.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422683.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422079.pdf
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422685.pdf

part 7
indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/423404.html
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/03//423405.pdf


outside links:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/10/climate-camp-surveillance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/police-surveillance-protesters-journalists-climate-kingsnorth
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