Following the report the Kent Police voluntarily referred complaints about the actions of their officers to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary said, “What happened at the Climate Camp was deeply disturbing and part of what seems to be a disturbing national trend. Political agendas have no place in policing."

The extent of political policing was further exposed the previous week the Guardian revealed that the police have been building up a database of thousands of political activists as well as harassing sympathetic journalists. The police also began their annual summer propaganda offensive against protesters in the form of 'the summer of rage' in which they began to lay the foundations to justify heavy handed suppression of the right to protest.