Senior police officers were quick to play down the implications of plans exposed in the press last March to outsource whole swathes of policing tasks to the private sector, yet despite the assurances major companies such as the security giant G4S are gaining disturbing new powers.
The second part of Andy Bowman’s interview with Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981.
Andy Bowman interviews Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981
The Chief of Greater Manchester Police has weighed into the propaganda war against the student protests – and he has the local media in tow.
Participants of the 24 November student protest in Manchester have spoken out with allegations of police violence directed towards demonstrators following Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) claim that the demonstration had been a “success” that “passed off peacefully.” Additionally, video evidence of a charge by police horses into a densely packed crowd of demonstrators has emerged, […]
The cutting of police funds and numbers is likely to make them target activists more surgically warns Kevin Blowe.
Less than one in eighteen Greater Manchester Police officers are disciplined for proven acts of misconduct, figures obtained by MULE suggest.
