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

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:

> 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.


I think we must all reflect on the outcome of terrorist actions on  
your country and mine,

and ask simply,

"how in the world all of this has come about...?"


Steve
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> On 15 Feb 2009, at 00:04, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the beginning of the end to me....
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