May 10, 2016 | Community Policing, Protest
A guest post by Saqib Deshmukh of High Wycombe Community Advocates and Netpol on a new report raising serious questions about the policing of last month’s EDL march and counter-demonstration High Wycombe Community Advocates (HWCA) were one of the key local groups...
Sep 30, 2015 | Community Policing, Rights
Netpol and other campaign groups are launching a new way to show opposition to the government’s Prevent ‘anti-radicalisation’ strategy Today, Netpol joined other campaigning organisations, including Campaign Against the Arms Trade and the Islamic...
Jul 23, 2015 | Comment, Community Policing
This is a cross post by Harry Stopes that first appeared on the London Review of Books blog. For more on Operation Shield see Campaign condemns London Mayor’s “gang” strategy as racist ‘collective punishment’ According to the Policing and Crime Act 2009, for violence...
Jul 22, 2015 | Comment, Community Policing, Protest
This week’s Guardian report revealing how a City of London Police presentation to nursery staff included Occupy, environmentalists and student protesters alongside al-Qaeda and the IRA has attracted understandable anger. Our full comment to journalist Ben Quinn,...
Mar 31, 2015 | Community Policing
A new film by Y-Stop aims to highlight rights and vital skills for young people in handling police stop and search incidents. Y-Stop is a collaboration between charities, lawyers, young people, youth workers, community and media organisations and is run by...
Nov 25, 2014 | Community Policing
This weekend our third pilot project trains a new team of independent ‘Community Monitors’ to observe and record the actions of police officers, this time in Greater Manchester. After successfully setting up Community Monitor pilot projects in Birmingham and west...
