Police maintain absolute secrecy over counter-terrorism surveillance on anti-fracking campaigners

May 24, 2018 | Don't Be On A Database, Protest

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...

Home Office forced by Netpol to release ‘counter-radicalisation’ training materials

May 1, 2018 | Domestic Extremism, Protest

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...

Durham Police unveils ‘bodycam intelligence database’

Jul 19, 2017 | Don't Be On A Database

One of the UK’s smallest police forces, Durham Police, is reportedly gathering video captured by officers’ body worn cameras to create a ‘troublemakers’ database – contravening national guidance that officers should not use the technology as an...

Extraordinary judgment rubber-stamps unfounded link between anti-fracking and extremism

Nov 21, 2016 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Protest

The Information Commissioner, in rejecting an appeal by Netpol over the refusal of the police to release details of a programme to ‘deradicalise extremists’, has endorsed unfounded and unsubstantiated links between anti-fracking protests and the threat of...

Report highlights ‘chilling effect’ on freedom to protest against fracking

Nov 3, 2016 | Protest

Netpol has published a new report, ‘Protecting the Protectors: Monitoring the Policing of Anti-Fracking Protests since 2014’, which summarises our activities, findings and analysis of the policing of protests against fracking since 2014. Drawing...