Feb 5, 2014 | Don't Be On A Database
This post is by Netpol member Kevin Blowe of Newham Monitoring Project After reports in June last year that Newham Monitoring Project, the east London community group I’ve been part of for over 20 years, was spied on during the 1990s by undercover Metropolitan...
Jun 25, 2013 | Don't Be On A Database, Protest
Press release from Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) – one of the members of Netpol. It is alarming that a Metropolitan police undercover surveillance unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), targeted Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) and serves as a reminder of...
Oct 11, 2012 | Support Us
The Newham Monitoring Project (NMP), a partner organisation in Netpol, have published some initial findings from their monitoring of policing during the Olympics. NMP trained and supported 89 Community Legal Observers (CLOs), who were deployed in shifts during the...
Jul 31, 2012 | Community Policing
A group of Newham Monitoring Project Community Legal Observer volunteers have been “banned” from entering Stratford Park, a site open to the general public who wish to watch the free Olympic livescreens, by security on the ground who apparently accused...
Jul 27, 2012 | Community Policing
The Security Games are almost upon us. This summer’s London Olympics sees the largest peacetime policing and security operation since 1945, with a budget that has soared to around £1 billion. Between now and mid September, the Network for Police Monitoring (NetPol)...
