Tag Archives: Police
Total policing: Rave on
A new technology is being developed that will allow police the opportunity to disperse crowds with an electronic sound system fitted to riot shields. A US company is in the process of testing the new patented device that emits a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe.
“Bring the fire here!”
No Borders activists work in solidarity with migrants who struggle against the border regime. We want to strengthen links between this resistance and the wider discontent seen on Britain’s streets against commodification and police harassment.
Gang Warfare
Welcome to a new era of political policing When Oxbridge graduate Bernard Hogan-Howe began his new job as Metropolitan police commissioner in September he brought with him the quaint PR phrase ‘total policing’ (that he himself coined when chief of Merseyside police) as a way of introducing himself into the new role as top cop.
N9 New police tactics: Undercover cops active and aggressive
We saw a change in police tactics for the Nov 9 student demo in central London. Apart from the tightly regulated route of the march (each sidestreet was blocked by a small army of well defended barriers) police had introduced a new and potentially dangerous element into the policing of the demonstration – the extensive [...]
Riots: Police monitor beaten in back of police van
Independent police monitor punched and kicked to the head and legs in back of police van, while monitoring policing of disturbances. The Network for Police Monitoring will make a complaint to the Metropolitan police after one of its volunteers was arrested and beaten by police while monitoring the policing of disturbances in Enfield on the [...]
Riot Update
Multi-millionaire prime minister David Cameron issued a carefully worded press statement this morning about the new tactical approaches the police may take in the next few days if the riots continue throughout the UK. He said “the police are already authorised to use baton rounds… and while they are not currently needed we now have [...]
Police free to kill
Friends and family of Kingsley Burrell, a 29 year old father who recently died in suspicious circumstances while in the custody of the police, gathered in Birmingham city centre on Saturday 2nd July and marched with a crowd of over 1000 people to West Midlands police headquarters in an angry protest calling for justice and [...]
Andy Hayman and the CIB
Andy Hayman was in charge of Complaints Investigation Bureau – the Met police’s internal anti-corruption group. It turns out they were more corrupt than the coppers they were investigating. MPs demand inquiry into the Met’s ‘Untouchables’, accused of using the same illegal police tactics they are sworn to fight Corruption Squad under fire ‘Untouchables’of the [...]
Andy Hayman – the UK’s most bent copper
Andy Hayman sat before a government home affairs select committee on 12th July over the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World that he was charged with investigating in 2005 and, despite his barrow-boy-made-good persona and incredulous performance, lied through his teeth. We take a brief look at the history of the most [...]
Corruption Squad under fire
The Metropolitan police’s much vaunted anti-corruption drive, which has been under way for six years, is now itself the subject of three inquiries because of allegations over the way it operates, an investigation by the Guardian has revealed. The inquiries into the complaints investigation branch (CIB), two of them internal and one by an outside [...]