7. The Police
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Has Britain got a problem with the police?
There are numerous examples of their questionable conduct:
Damian Green
Jean Charles de Menezes
The abuse of Form 27 to disperse legitimate assembly – especially football supporters;
The building of the FIT database;
The un-scrutinised roll out of ANPR without debate in parliament;
Cash for peerages;
The routinely oppressive policing of demonstrations;
The routine mistreatment of suspects;
The lack of accountability of ACPO (it sets policy and pursues goals but is immune to scrutiny and FoI requests).
Who are the police working for – themselves or us?
Who are they answerable to?
Have they become politicised?
| Chair: | Hilary Wainwright (Co-Editor, Red Pepper) |
| Speakers: | Malcolm Carroll (Spokesman, Plane Stupid) |
| Cilius Victor (Jean Charles de Menezes Campaign) | |
| Steve Powell (Director of Policy, FSF) | |
| Harriet Sergeant (author and research fellow, CPS) | |
