Thousands of royal wedding spectators unfairly thwarted from getting view of balcony kiss

Following the use of bluetooth by police forces around the country in awareness raising schemes, the Met Police intend to encourage protesters to activate bluetooth on their mobile phones at the TUC March for the Alternatives demonstration in London on March 26th. This will allow the MET police to broadcast messages direct to marchers mobile phones. For background see astracasting.com

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Metropolitan Police in Court over Protest Tactics

Judicial review of G20 Climate Camp containment and dispersal operation held in Crown Court



Days before mass demonstrations against cuts, the Divisional Court scrutinises the legality of kettling and use of force at G20 . The three-day judicial review of the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the Camp for Climate Action at the G20 protests is to sta…

How are the Metropolitan police preparing for this weekend's mass demonstrations against public spending cuts? Hugh Muir investigates

- Met's assistant commissioner, Lynne Owens

- Chair of the Met Police Federation, Peter Smyth

- Green party London assembly member Jenny Jones

- Liberty's legal director, James Welch

- Val Swain from Fit Watch

- Vikram Dodd, the Guardian's crime correspondent

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2nd March 2011: The Network for Police Monitoring, a network of experienced protester support organisations , today slammed the decision of the TUC and Liberty to work alongside the Metropolitan police in deploying legal observers on the TUC march to be held on the 26th of this month.

Legal observers have traditionally been fiercely independent of the police, a position which is seen as essential…

Katy Clark, Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, has tabled an Early Day Motion calling for a ban on the use of ‘kettling’ by police as a way of managing crowds at protests or demonstrations.

Public condescension for the technique has become much more vocal in recent months since the use of the technique at student fees demonstrations last year, with cases such as Alfie Meadows bringi…

Photos of yesterdays Demonstration outside Scotland yard London. Protesters denounced the police tactics of forcibly corralling people known as kettling, police assaults on demonstrators and home raids on participants.