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Published in: Shine A LightStrip-searched in Derbyshire
Police officers across England are strip-searching people for no good reason.
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Published in: openSecurityOn the trail of Britain's undercover police
Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social...
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Published in: openSecurityDeaths in British police custody: no convicted officers since 1969
827 people have died during or following police contact since 2004. Families have struggled hard for justice,...
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Published in: openSecurityDisruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of...
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Published in: openSecurityEntrepreneurial policing? International policing challenges
The export of policing is a global growth industry in which the UK plays a major role. Recent years have seen the...
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Published in: openSecurityWhose Police?
Do the police serve the public, or are they a force of elite control? openSecurity's series opens up this question...
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Published in: openSecurityChasing accountability; facing impunity
Bahrain's attempt to hold the state security services to account is channeled through campaigning, lobbying and of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe history of British involvement in Bahrain's internal security
John Yates is only the most recent Briton to be given a public role in Bahrain's internal security. Since founding...
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Published in: openSecurityPolicing Bahrain: the long arm of the British
Just after the Arab Spring was brutally crushed in Bahrain, Britain's John Yates, the former Assistant Metropolitan...
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Published in: openSecurityThe military grip on US policing
US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job