[Leica] Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime

[gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)]

As a UK photographer who has often photographed the police on riot  
control etc. I find this proposal frightening. Whilst I am in favour  
of anything that stops a terrorist carry out any of their actions, it  
does mean that anybody who photographs a police officer can be guilty  
of an offence because any image showing a police officers face (or any  
other identifiable mark) could be of use to terrorists, and their have  
already been instances of photographers being arrested, questioned and  
having their cards wiped. The mere fact that you are arrested means  
that they can fingerprint you and dna test you in this country, which  
already has the greatest number of cctv cameras per head of population  
of anywhere in the world.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
+44 (0)23 8046 3076
www.gerrywalden.co.uk
www.stockuk.co.uk

On 15 Feb 2009, at 00:04, Walt Johnson wrote:

> Sounds like the beginning of the end to me....
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