The Met’s approach on coronation day is a culmination of decades of draconian policing of mass protest Police impunity has led us to this point, where officers arrest people before they have even started protesting ✒️ MattFoot2 and moraglivingst
The poll tax protests attracted 200,000 to London. It is often remembered for violent scenes and the resignation of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that followed. An internal police investigation confirmed their tactics had “appeared to be the catalyst for the wider spread of disorder”. Deputy Chief Commissioner John Metcalfe’s report into what lessons police could learn from the incident took a year to conclude. During this time, he was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal on 31 December 1990.
In 2021, when women came out for a peaceful vigil to Sarah Everard, police handcuffed and manhandled them to the ground. In all of these, and other protests, the police have not been held to account for their actions.by supplying information to the media that is subsequently withdrawn. This happened during protests Bristol’s “Kill the Bill” protests in 2021.
One of the drivers for this type of policing has been political interference that was solidified following the Brixton riots of 1981. At the time the Conservative government publicly agreed with the recommendations in Lord Scarman’s report including an increase in community policing.was created by senior police chiefs and the home office.
It was sanctioned by then home secretary William Whitelaw in 1983 . Despite being a “fundamental change” to the policing of protest in Britain, this was done without the scrutiny of MPs. This approach breached the police’s supposed operational independence.these secret powers were first deployed at Warrington during a print workers’ dispute.
In 1997 when Tony Blair’s Labour came to power, they had a chance to repeal the anti-union and protest laws which had been introduced by Conservative governments since Thatcher came to power in 1979. Instead, they built up a closer relationship with the police and strengthened their powers. Blair’s government enacted
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