Aug 8, 2022 | Protest, Reports
Campaign Against Arms Trade and Netpol have released a report exposing the militarised nature of British policing. A Very British Problem: The Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex exposes the increasingly blurry line between the police and...
Aug 2, 2022 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated...
Jul 22, 2022 | Kettling Police Powers, Protest
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has changed the law on highway obstruction. With campaigners regularly arrested for blocking roads, it is essential everyone knows about these changes and what they mean. The maximum penalty for highway obstruction was...
Jul 7, 2022 | Comment, Protest
A statement from Bristol Anti-Repression Campaign Today Charlie Pitman was sentenced to three years for her part in last year’s Kill the Bill demonstration in Bristol. Charlie has been sentenced for simply standing her ground near the front of the crowd, in the...
Jun 21, 2022 | Submissions
In May 2022, the House of Commons Public Bill Committee asked for submissions on the government’s new Public Order Bill. This is Netpol’s response. 1. This submission is concerned with the compatibility of the proposed Bill with Article 11 of the European...
May 27, 2022 | Protest, Rights
Like previous government restrictions on an individual’s liberty to ‘protect the public’, Serious Disruption Prevention Orders are the end-point of increasing state repression The inclusion in the government’s new Public Order Bill of new Serious Disruption Prevention...
