Lancashire Police under fire as senior officers ignore violence against anti-fracking protesters
The start of Reclaim the Power’s month of Rolling Resistance on Saturday has seen the blockade of shale gas company Cuardilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire intensify, with every warning about the consequences of a highly partisan and oppressive...Netpol calls for repeal of Section 35 dispersal powers
Dispersal powers are discriminatory. anti-democratic, open to abuse and completely unaccountable. The Network for Police Monitoring has today launched a new campaign to repeal powers under Section 35 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which...Wave of impunity carries Cressida Dick into Commissioner’s job
The word “impunity” – exemption from any possibility of punishment or harm – comes up again and again when bereaved families talk about the death of a loved one at the hands of the police. The family of Jean Charles de Menezes used it again in a statement...Join the protest tomorrow against the militarisation of policing
Campaigners will be holding a mass demonstration outside the Home Office, calling for an end to the secretive ‘Security and Policing’ arms fair that is happening 8 – 10 March in Farnborough. The demonstration has been called and supported by Stop the...