Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The head of one of the UK forces - who is natruional spokesman on these matters was interviewed on the radio over here yesterday morning. He said that he was going to re-issue advice to the police about how they were to react to public taking photos. For an earlier (August) commentary on the guidance see: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=44092 The Met's Official Gudance is here: http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm Peter Kyle Cassidy wrote: > There's this OTHER dude named Kyle Cassidy who screws up my google vanity > searches by being very talented and prolific. He just wrote an article > about police in the UK stopping people for photographing things like the > houses of parlement: > > http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2009/12/08/no-photos-here-uk-police-use-anti-terrorism-legislation-to-curb-photos-of-iconic-public-places/ > > Perhaps not ironically, I was stopped and detained by three police cars > this summer for taking a photo in Limerick PA that had the cooling towers > in the background. They were very polite, but I was told that no photos > may be taken that have the Limerick Nuclear cooling towers in them, which > is absurd, since you can see them for fifteen miles. Eventually a guy with > an M4 took my film and they told me not to take any more pictures until I > got back to Philadelphia. I wonder what they'll do when they find out > there are six million photos of the towers already on flickr. And even > aerial photos on the NRC's web page.... > > They also told me that the week before they'd detained two guys from India > who were seen taking a photo of the towers from the Limerick shopping > mall, four miles away. > > > > You have too many cameras and you're not getting stopped by the police > enough, > > Kc > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig