“Home Secretary told “end police surveillance of journalists” – nuj.org.uk.

Last Thursday NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear sent a letter to Jacqui Smith the Home Secretary on the issue of police surveillance of journalists. In the letter Jeremy Dear wrote that “…we have serious concerns about the activities of the Metropolitan Police’s Forward Intelligence Team (FIT Team) in monitoring and recording the activities of bona fide journalists, especially photographers.” He went on to say the “police’s surveillance… amounts to virtual harassment”.

The full text of the letter has been released to the press today.

British Journal of Photography, 28.05.08, page 4. Copyright British Journal of Photography/Incisive Media, 2008. Published here by kind permission of the British Journal of Photography/Incisive Media.