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I Will Not Let Police Be Subjected to Trial by Social Media: UK Home Secretary Police officers should not face “trial by social media,” the Home Secretary has said as she backed calls to publish more body-worn video footage of incidents. In a speech to the annual Police Federation of England and Wales conference, Priti Patel said “transparency is vital” and supported plans to tackle “misleading” video clips uploaded on to social media.” She told the audience: “I will not let the police be subjected to trial by social media. “That’s why I backed the federation’s call for ...

16 Feb 2021 British police have begun employing drones to monitor political protests throughout the country, as campaigners warn that the increasingly heavy-handed tactics employed by the police may be used to “silence dissent”. A freedom of information request from the UK Drone Watch campaign group found that police across the country have begun using drones to surveil protests. Police forces in Surrey, Cleveland, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire and West Midlands, as well as the Devon and Cornwall and Avon and Somerset forces, were all found to have used drones during protests, The Guard...

First published on Tue 16 Feb 2021 07.01 EST A coalition of human rights and community groups have said they will boycott the government’s review of the anti-radicalisation programme Prevent in protest at the appointment of William Shawcross as its chair. In a joint statement, 17 groups with interests in human rights and communities, including Liberty, Amnesty International and the Runnymede Trust, said the appointment of Shawcross showed the review was there to “simply rubber-stamp” the controversial and divisive strategy, and they would not contribute to the exercise. There have been ...

Organisations including Amnesty, Liberty and Cage say government has 'no interest in conducting an objective and impartial review'