Re: Interesting article on the amateur photographer hysteria

On Apr 19, 4:43=A0pm, Neil Barker <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This whole issue is something that has been brewing for a long time
> now. About 8 years ago, Stafford****re Police appointed a new head
> press-officer by the name of Margaret Kirk. She visited several
> regional daily newspapers in the Stafford****re area - one of which was
> mine.
>
> Our editor called me in for a chat with her, to tell her of some of the
> problems I had had over the years. I'd had many - mainly at RTAs being
> told that I cannot take a photo of it etc, when there is no law at all
> stopping me.
>

Interesting.

We had a very nice RTA here a few months ago when I was at work, a
stolen car swerved to avoid another vehicle and ended up upside down
in a hedge at the end of our road.............my wife decided to take
a few snaps but was prevented from doing so by Plod who told her
effectively what you've said, i.e "you can't do that, it's against the
law".

Now my wife is naive and took Plod at face value (I'd have told him to
go away) but it makes you think who it is exactly who's instilling
this false information into coppers on the streets?

Or do they make it up as they go along?