Apr 6, 2022 | Community Policing
Netpol is seeking the help of emergent CopWatch groups to help us improve a new practical guide we are launching today, which is designed to support local people to set up police monitoring groups in their neighbourhoods. You can find a growing list of new local...
Apr 6, 2022 | Community Policing
Community Legal Observers on the streets with the Newham Monitoring Project in 2012 Local police monitoring groups are springing up around the country. To help them, we’re launching a new practical guide to setting up a local police monitoring group. Order your...
Mar 22, 2022 | Community Policing, Rights
Photo credit: HeardInLondon A strip search involves the police asking you to undress beyond removing outer clothing layers, like a coat, hat or gloves. The use of this tactic has been widely criticised for its intimidatory and abusive nature, and the recent case of...
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...
