Publication: Front cover of Stage Screen & Radio magazine (Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union – BECTU), April 2009.

Here are two tear sheets of images of mine on police surveillance. Above is the front cover of the April issue of the BECTU Stage Screen & Radio magazine and below is one from The Guardian from last month. As most of you will know I also co-wrote The Guardian investigation.

Publication: Pages 14 & 15 of The Guardian, 7 March 2009.

BEDFORD, UNITED KINGDOM – 21.03.09. Anti-immigration detention centre activists march from Bedford Town centre to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre on Saturday 21 March 2009 in Bedfordshire, England. The protest called for an end to “indefinite” detention of women, men and children. Campaign groups said that, “25,000 people – including 2,000 children – accused of no crime, are detained indefinitely each year at great human cost and great expense to tax-payers.” (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 25.02.09. Students congregate in London to protest against fees on Wednesday 25 February 2009. Students marched from University College London to King’s College London to demanded free education and living grants for all and opposition to university vice-chancellors’ calls for an increase in tuition fees and to continuing cuts and privatisation on university campuses. (Photo by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2009.

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A Metropolitan Police Special Branch file reporting to MI5 on photographer Lee Miller.  Published here by kind permission of The National Archives.

“Glamorous socialites were spied on by MI5″ – The Guardian.

“British spies kept tabs on photographer Lee Miller” – International Herald Tribune.

“The Lee Miller file” – Today Programme, BBC Radio 4.

Over the last few days I have been reading Lee Miller’s security file and without doubt it is fascinating stuff. You can download the full file here from The National Archives for free.

After working on an investigation about police surveillance for The Guardian, which included surveillance of photographers, I wonder how many years it will take the people in our investigation to get to see their own files?

Kent police said this week that it was wrong of them to film journalists working and the National Union of Journalists said it would like all the files of journalists destroyed.

Publication: Lead story of The Guardian, 7 March 2009, plus pages 14 and 15.

Publication: Lead story of The Guardian, 7 March 2009.

“Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters” – The Guardian.

“Caught on film and stored on database: how police keep tabs on activists” – The Guardian.

“Under surveillance: police target environmental protesters and journalists” – The Guardian.

“Police surveillance: ‘They’re focusing on the press more than the protesters’” – The Guardian.

For the last 3 months I have been working on an investigation about police surveillance of journalists and protesters for The Guardian with Paul Lewis.  Click on the links above to see what we found out.

KINGSNORTH, KENT, UNITED KINGDOM – 08.8.08. Police stop and search an ITV (Meridian) Broadcast Crew outside the main gate of the Camp for Climate Action Hoo, Kent, England on Friday 8th August 2008. The broadcasters had just left the climate camp when member of west Yorkshire police stopped and searched them under Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. (Photo Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2008.

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