Just Stop Oil — Unlawful arrest of press

Ex-policeman Charles Malet gives a brief audio commentary on what went wrong when Hertfordshire Police presumed powers of arrest over a press photographer on an M25 flyover and ransacked the home of his colleague at night for three hours. Were they just bungling the old legislation (PACE 1984) through poor training and politicised priorities from on high—or was this the dictatorial new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (criminalisation of protestors) at work? Read the write-up at: https://www.ukcolumn.org/just-stop-oil-unlawful-arrest-of-press