Spotter cards: What they look like and how they work | UK news | The Guardian - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Oct 09
  

  john doughnut

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  • so-called "spotter cards" are issued by police to identify individuals they consider to be potential troublemakers because they have appeared at a number of demonstrations.

    The photographs are drawn from police intelligence files.

  • "This is an appropriate tactic used by police to help them identify people at specific events … who may instigate offences or disorder."

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  • • Thomas writes: "Protesters – or, as the police call them, 'domestic extremists' – are the new 'reds under the bed'."
• 29 Oct 09
  

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• 26 Oct 09
  

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  A Perspective

  police privacy spotter list

• 25 Oct 09
  

  M McBride

  "This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public."

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