Should it be illegal to film or photograph police officers?

llegaralasestrellas

I know a couple of MHKs's actually, one is a complete waste of time and actually sent me a standard letter in reply to a personal correspondence and then said, "Oh I'm so stressed...." so I won't bother her. The other one is actually very hard working ( Mike Nattrass) but is in the UK Independence Party and supposed to be anti-EU yet he does work hard to try to work legislation in the UK's favour. I don't know whether he would see more legislation of any type something he'd like but I'll drop him an email now.Let's face it any law in Spain or Hungary etc. is soon taken up in the UK for "compliance" by the wet fools in the House of Commons.   I'll let you know what he says, maybe if there's a Spanish MEP you could email as well? 

Manxmonkey:

I'm in dear old England, in the NW constiuency, so I'd be at this end too. I can spare a letter to MEP and perhaps bring it up at a few political conferences, but I probabaly can't devote much time. For all my sins, I'm in the NW England parliamentary constiuency, and my MEPs are the following awesome characters.

Paul Nutall (UKIP)

Nick Griffin (BNP)

Robert Atkins (Tory)

Jacqueline Foster (Tory)

Chris Davies (Lib. Dem)

Brian Simpson (Lab)

Arlene McCarthy (Lab)

McCarthy, Simpson and Davies,  I do actually have some respect for, but the rest are a long sad procession of fear-mongers and ostriches. yay!!!

What's to stop losers with a grudge against public servants following them around, filming their everymove? Would this be ok

There's certainly nothing stopping a government who views "plebs" with contempt from installing more CCTV cameras than anywhere else in the world and filming innocent people going about their daily lives, is there? As for teachers, there are more than 100,000 (yes, one hundred thousand!) cameras installed now in UK schools, including in changing rooms and toilets!

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9535931/More-than-200-schools-have-CCTV-in-toilets-and-changing-rooms.html

Unbelievable, but sadly, true.

I have never had any problems with CCTV in our cities. The reason they exist is to reduce crime and detect offenders. It is an absolute fact that CCTV images have helped to convict countless violent offenders, murderers and rapists. It is also without question that these images have helped prevent crime and disorder before it happens or esculates. If we didn't have such high levels of crime wouldn't need them! Would peope rather we got rid of all our CCTV? Great idea, now, watch the detection rates plummet!

llegaralasestrellas

I'd try Paul Nuttall.  I know he was lobbying to remove the M6 Toll and I saw him on one of the Sunday morning political shows and he sounded quite sensible.  It was about the cost of Interpreters in the EU to UK tax payers.  They now want some weird german dialect interpreted even though the only EU member from that area has said she doesn't want interpreters!  He was suggesting that he was happy not to have an interpreter but he hoped everyone else wouldn't call for 200 different interpreters so the other members could understand his Lancashire accent - he was quite funny.