Researcher required: Community Toolkit for Monitoring the Police
Researcher required by Netpol to develop a Community Toolkit for Monitoring the Police The position is commissioned as a short-term project on a consultancy basis for the equivalent of around 125 hours of work (with completion no later than Thursday 28 February 2019)...A War on Dissent?
This essay by Netpol was first published by the Transnational Institute and ROAR Magazine in October 2018. An accompanying short film is available here. Writing in 2016, Netpol observed that the government and the police in Britain are in a “permanent state of war”...“Aaron-gate” – Prevent’s latest smearing of legitimate political dissent
A report on tackling ‘hateful extremism’ commissioned in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack has been caught up in a barrage of criticism entirely of its authors’ own making, after smearing anti-fracking campaigners and then admitting it...Police must respect protesters’ right to oppose Trump visit
As large numbers of police officers from around the country are redeployed to respond to demonstrations against President Trump’s visit to the UK on Friday, Netpol is calling on police not to undermine people’s rights to freedom of expression and assembly...Victory for Netpol in legal challenge over scale of surveillance on anti-fracking campaigners
In a judgment received today, a tribunal has ruled in favour of Netpol and said that the police cannot rely on safeguarding national security as a reason for refusing to release any information on how often opponents of fracking are referred to a secretive...Injunctions: A Myth Buster for Anti-Frackers
GUEST POST Injunctions are scary sounding things, but that’s exactly what they’re meant to be. Fear, rather than actual prosecutions, is the primary means by which injunction orders succeed in shutting down protest. And you can understand why: if a court...Police are encouraging shale gas industry to go to court to disrupt anti-fracking protests
Yet another interim injunction has been granted to the fracking industry, this time at a hearing in Manchester last week that sought to prohibit a range of disruptive protest tactics at Cuadrilla’s site at Preston New Road in Lancashire. Once again, this...Police maintain absolute secrecy over counter-terrorism surveillance on anti-fracking campaigners
Home Office insists secretive Prevent programme “cannot in any circumstances be considered frightening” Imagine feeling you have to tell your children to avoid talking about fracking at school, in case it is seen as a safeguarding concern. Or experiencing...It’s time to stop smearing anti-fracking campaigners as “extremists”
The way the police persistently label opposition to fracking as “extremism” infuriates campaigners up and down the country. The National Police Chiefs Council NPCC), which represents senior police officers in the UK, will shortly consult on how local...