In other words you are right!..... but we are really not going to do anything about it
If they want to sort this, then every time an "innocent" photographer is "unfairly" stopped, then the local Chief Police Officer should be summoned to meet the Minster in person to explain his officer's actions.
Note 'could' not 'will'. As you were, then.He told the minister: 'We think it's appropriate to strengthen these circulars [to police officers] to assert the fact that photography is a right. Photographers need to feel confident and not inhibited. The circular could emphasise that.'
Cheers
David
Full of weasel words...
expect nothing... get nothing.
65 happy photo years from amateur to professional and back. Caught the bug Young.
I agree in the real world, on them streets government words mean nothing. No doubt it will sell a few magazines and give us more ammunition. This I think has more to do with election fever, cynical I know but these cretins do nothing unless there is a vote in itFull of weasel words...
expect nothing... get nothing.
As others have said, sorry AP but your representations appear to have achieved less than nothing here. All they've done is repeated exactly what they've said over the previous 2 years. They will do nothing until someone forces the police's hand to stump up money for failing to act reasonably. Speaking as someone who has just come back from the continent, walking down the middle of the main street with a DSLR round my neck, with police walking past every few minutes, the UK government and UK police have it wrong. Badly and dangerously wrong.
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most
Owning a camera does not make you a photographer. It makes you a person who owns a camera. And, if the authorities are to be believed, a pedophile, a terrorist, and a pervert.
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