Over this
#KillTheBill
weekend of action, protests across the country will have strangely over-friendly police officers out wearing blue bibs. They are gathering intelligence on a growing movement. You don't have to talk to them and our advice is not to
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Please READ and SHARE this advice from
@GBCLegal
if you are participating in a protest today
1. NO COMMENT! You’re usually not required to answer police questions, so don’t. - Say ‘no comment’. This includes ‘friendly chats’, on the streets, in a police van & during interview. PLOs (officers in blue bibs) are trained intelligence gatherers - remember ‘NO COMMENT’
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@netpol
Not sure this genteel conversation would occur in London...see how easy information is revealed!
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@NickG_101
Oh is THAT who they were. 🧐
I don't think many spoke to them but they helpfully discouraged a group of bratty teenage boys who were trying to upstage the speakers.
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@netpol
"'Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy?' answered Gildor. 'Flee them! Speak no words to them! They are deadly. Ask no more of me!'"
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@psychcomm
Oh, I talked to one last week - she was very friendly. Said she'd been on duty for five hours already, so I got her a cup of tea and a chocolate bar. Least I could do, really.
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@netpol
They've been around a while. Agree with your advice but I used to like to chat to them back in the day. Nothing I told them was true, but in today's digital surveillance world your advice is 100% correct.
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@netpol
Many of these police will be asleep in their role, just doing what they're told & doing their job, passing the info they're gathering to powers that be who are intent on wiping civil & human rights off the UK map. Glad they're friendlier, but I'd be wary
#PoliceBill
#killthebill
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@netpol
Lots of these blue "police liason" out at the Kill The Bill protest in Manchester today. Snaking through the crowds trying to "chat" to people
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@netpol
I think, I know as far as myself, best not to engage at all rather than refusing to talk or walking away. I would feel bad. I always feel bad when you get people on the street trying to sell you something or change your energy supplier
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@HenryCPorter
Welcome to the subtext of Brexit. It was always there, waiting behind the scenes. The authoritarian state.
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