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For Police Eyes Only
This is enlarged from an image I took in 2004 which shows a police officer with named photo ID’s of individuals on a Stop the War coalition protest outside an election fundraising dinner where George Bush Senior was after dinner speaker (pic is used in the Guardian story related today)
Not only does it contain prominent peace activists but also outrageously, two journalists (names and faces have been blurred to protect the identity of individuals listed)
The spotter card is used by police to identify potential ‘trouble makers’.
See Guardian article; Police in £9m scheme to log ‘domestic extremists’ here
and Domestic Extremist blog piece here
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Domestic Extremist
© Jess Hurd/reportdigital.co.uk
See Mark Thomas Guardian article on the civil liberties and the police secret database here
Read For Police Eyes Only blog piece on the Guardian Domestic Extremist story here
Our reputation on surveillance also extends to the New York Times here