Photographers (Professional, Citizen Journalists and Amateur) relationship between the police, is in all probability set to worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and up to 'ten years imprisonment' - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.
I know what it says, but I see how the current law is being applied
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836675
Justin Tallis photo and story
http://marcvallee.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/surveillance-police-grab-press-photographers-camera/
Jess Hurd story
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42667&c=1
Kristjan Logason story and pictures
http://www.aurora.is/content/icelandic-police-uses-maze-photographers
I believe I was also deliberately targeted on one of TSG baton charges at the North Gate, Kensington Park Gardens, whilst covering the 10th Jan Gaza Demo (sustaining a suspected fracture injury to my right shoulder) in order to hamper my ability to take further photographs of the police actions at that location
Photo copyright Stalingrad O'Neill - permission is required for third party usage