deepvisual
5th February 2009, 09:02 AM
Jail for photographing police? (http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836675)
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.
For those of you who live outside the UK.
its normally the case for these kinds of laws to be used in other ways. For example, a law that was passed to prevent ex boyfriends from stalking women is now used to prevent public demonstrations (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/anti-stalking-liberty-central) and is behind the following statement from the policeman in the article.
the officer then tried to take the camera away. ........ the officer said that Tallis 'shouldn't have taken that photo, you were intimidating me'.
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.
For those of you who live outside the UK.
its normally the case for these kinds of laws to be used in other ways. For example, a law that was passed to prevent ex boyfriends from stalking women is now used to prevent public demonstrations (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/anti-stalking-liberty-central) and is behind the following statement from the policeman in the article.
the officer then tried to take the camera away. ........ the officer said that Tallis 'shouldn't have taken that photo, you were intimidating me'.