PCO's Preventing Photography In Public

Can I just throw into the mix that we got a circular recently from the NPIA reminding us that it was neither an offence to take pictures in public nor to take pictures of us in uniform but this should not stop us going about our duties.

The only pictures people take of me in uniform is when they are drunk and they want a picture taken with a nearby copper, of course we normally oblige but if one more person asks if their pregnant girlfriend can pee in my helmet! grr. It's got holes in for goodness sake, even if that law were real it'd be pointless as it'd run out of the holes!
 
Squareoftheyear said:
Can I just throw into the mix that we got a circular recently from the NPIA reminding us that it was neither an offence to take pictures in public nor to take pictures of us in uniform but this should not stop us going about our duties.

The only pictures people take of me in uniform is when they are drunk and they want a picture taken with a nearby copper, of course we normally oblige but if one more person asks if their pregnant girlfriend can pee in my helmet! grr. It's got holes in for goodness sake, even if that law were real it'd be pointless as it'd run out of the holes!
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You mean to say that it is not true, I always wanted my wife to ask a copper that when she was pregnant.
 
Squareoftheyear,

Do you have any information about how many s.44 authorisations are in place at a given time? A lot of these stories report that the MoP was stopped under s.44 and it strikes me that most of the country seems to have been authorised under this "exceptional" power.

Are officers on the street kept up-to-date about where and when authorisations are in place? How likely do you think it is that PCSO or PCs are just quoting s.44 without actually knowing if they are correct in doing so?
 
I can't see why we have PCSOs at all, it's not as if it's a 3 year degree course to be a copper, recruit and train more police
 
Hey Guys,

If you citizens of UK struggle with PCSO and their Anti - terror & blah blah blah for street photography... As a Student from India with a camera in my hands standing on road/street gonna put me in toss for sure... after seeing this thread ( another thread same like this) I have to re-consider my photography in streets of UK.

I have an another doubt. What about tourists? I read millions of tourists visiting UK for leisure. Its obvious that they would love to take photographs in places of interests like Big ben, Thames river, castles . etc. what will Police do ? will they explain the same to tourists ?
 
PCP on the contrary, a lot of officers would probably be worried about seen to be hassling ethnic minorities so may leave you alone.

Davec223, I've no idea on stats of actual s.44's to be honest. I work a rural(ish) beat with no main terror threats about.

Wack61, PCSO's dependant on attitude are a great resource. The tend to get out there and try to deal with problems and gather good intelligence. Plus we used to get dumped on point duty but they tend to get all the boring jobs dumped on them.
 
Squareoftheyear said:
PCP on the contrary, a lot of officers would probably be worried about seen to be hassling ethnic minorities so may leave you alone.
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Which would be quite wrong if their only doing their job, as is always being said on here.
 
I think the Gvmnt response to the petition says it all really and I now carry a copy in my camera bag just for when (not if) I get stopped by a little Hitler, sorry I mean overzealous officer :razz:

I might also carry a copy of the Not the Nine O'clock News "Constable Savage" sketch to just to really drum the point home.
 
British Transport Police seem to be especially vigourous in this.

Scotsman website today has published stats for 6 months ending Jan 08.

Under Terr. laws BTP carried out 14,000 stop and searches at Scottish stns.
During the same period the Civil police in Scotland carried out just 200.
 
After reading all this, the saddest thing is woolies closing down.
 
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