Mastermind and the road to Damascus

[Roland Perry]

In article <20090223225825.5bf7595f@peterson.fenrir.org.uk>, Brian 
Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk> writes
>Because it codifies something that previously was not so, namely that
>there is a specific offence of photographing a police officer in
>circumstances which can be finessed to be actionable.

I'd be grateful if you could quote this specific offence, because all 
I've been able to find is the bit about "information ... useful ... 
terrorism".

Which is therefore presumably *not* the new offence you are referring to 
because it mentions neither "photography" nor "of a police officer".

This will clear up rather a lot of extremely woolly reporting of this 
issue, hopefully including understanding how the rule in question 
applies equally to plain clothes officers (where intent may be difficult 
to demonstrate, if you don't know you are photographing an officer).
-- 
Roland Perry