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...Home Office forced by Netpol to release ‘counter-radicalisation’ training materials
After a two-year battle against five police forces and the regulator dealing with freedom of information, Netpol has secured an important victory for greater transparency of the government’s ‘counter-radicalisation’ strategy, Prevent. After...Let’s consign the police’s “Domestic Extremist” label to history
The label “domestic extremist” exists to justify intrusive police surveillance on political campaigners The glacially paced Undercover Policing Inquiry, set up in 2015 and still wading through demands by former police officers for anonymity, recently...