This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm and is filed under The War on Stupid.


Channel 4 – Police badge-covering condemned

The chief inspector of police describes some of the behaviour of police officers at the G20 protests as “unacceptable”.

Taking questions from MPs on the home affairs select committee, Mr O’Connor also said it was “totally unacceptable” for police officers to conceal their number IDs, as several of them appeared to be doing during the protests.

But London Mayor Boris Johnson has been defending the overall police handling of the protests.

Boris link here.

I think it’s entirely fair to expect an inquiry into the police not wearing badge numbers, the frequency with which this happened on the day and in general, and the possible causes behind it. Ditto for the known use of unnecessary force and the not-unrelated use of ‘kettling’ as a tactic.

Also, most of the negative PR concerning the police has resulted from their own efforts to skew the debate!