NO2ID

Law in Action

Joshua Rozenberg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sm6ct

This radio programme should be of general interest to all campaigners, as well as being of specific interest to NO2ID, with its focus on the police's creation of photo image libraries of campaigners and protesters.

Top legal journalist Joshua Rozenberg returns to present the first in a new series of the legal affairs magazine.

More than two decades after he first presented "Law in Action", Joshua Rozenberg, the doyen of legal reporters, returns to the programme to investigate the issues which influence and determine our law. Later in this series, he reveals what the new UK government's approach to the law is likely to be, its priorities and how its policies will change our system of justice. In this opening programme, he examines an issue that looks set to prompt widespread debate among the public as well as among those working in the criminal justice system. Increasingly the police are using digital cameras and intelligence tactics to create image libraries of campaigners and protesters. These are designed, senior officers say, to help the police prevent criminal acts from being committed. But critics see the creation and development of the photographic databases as potentially sinister, claiming that ever larger numbers of images are being added...

The programme is being broadcast today at 16.00 and will be repeated on Thursday evening at 20.00.

how will the Police record images of me wearing my Balaclava?

they will ask you politely to take it off

and if you don't they will equally politely find an excuse to arrest you

then they'll have a dna swab and fingerprints as well as a photograph