cops on cameras - again

[Brian L Johnson]

Chris Edwards <chris-ukcrypto at lists.skipnote.org> wrote:

> Temporarily reviving an old thread...
>
> (was: Re: Mastermind and the road to Damascus)
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, John Wilson wrote:
>
> | 2009/2/24 Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com>:
> | >
> | > 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".
> |
> | The sections which seem to be causing concern are section 76 of the
> | 2008 act  
> (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2008/ukpga_20080028_en_9#pt7-pb3-l1g76)
>
> Anyone catch this one:
>
>   http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/21/police-search-mobile-phone-court
>
>  "Lawyers for Gemma Atkinson, a 27-year-old who was detained after  
> filming
>   police officers conduct a routine stop and search on her boyfriend,
>   believe her case is the latest example of how police are misusing
>   counterterrorism powers to restrict photography."
>
> I wonder how the footage in question was [quoting the 2008 Act above]
> "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act
> of terrorism".
>
> It appears she was asked "Do you realise it is an offence under the
> Terrorism Act to film police officers?" ...

That case (and this http://is.gd/1HAvT- ) illustrate Roland's earlier  
point quite neatly in that the persons 'detained' were taking photos of  
plain-clothes officers.

At least, they were presumed to have been plain-clothes officers but, in  
both cases, the 'officers' refused to produce any identification.

-- 
-brianlj-