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� June 14, 2006 - Police Intelligence
Inner Hippy on Police Intelligence
Just the other day I was looking out of the window in a residential
street in Hackney, East London. I was witnessing a vehicle towing truck
preparing to pluck a car from the road and take it away. Looking
closely, I saw that the car had an occupant: a terrified woman
clutching a new born baby in her arms. I decided, naturally, that this
was far too good a photo opportunity to pass, so I grabbed by camera
and went out onto the road. By some bizarre coincidence, by the time I
got outside, a van full of police officers had also decided to take a
closer look.
I snapped away at this strange scene, trying to capture the poor
woman's horror as the burly removal men in yellow jackets wrestled with
various lifting contraptions around her car. Then a police officer
approached me and demanded that I stop taking photographs. As far as I
was aware I didn't consider this an offence so I naturally refused. He
then produced his notebook and demanded my name and address. What had I
done wrong, I asked? His answer was "hostile reconnaissance". He then
informed me that "it was a tactic used by terrorists" and that I was
acting "suspiciously". So now I'm a terrorist for taking photographs! I
tried to point out that the police were in the way of my photographs
and that it was not my intention to photograph them, but he still
insisted that I was conducting hostile reconnaissance. A small exchange
of heated words between myself and this moron was halted by a second
police officer who formally instructed me to "fuck off" and took his
colleague away.
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