Invitation for those interested in protesting , demonstrating at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton between Saturday 26th September and Thursday 1st October 2009
Dear
Sussex Police are once again responsible for policing this year’s Labour Party Political Conference which is scheduled to take place in Brighton between Saturday 26 September and Thursday 1 October 2009. As always with these party conferences, a significant security operation will be put in place. Sussex Police refer to this policing operation as Operation Otter.
For this year’s Operation Otter I have responsibility for planning for Public Order events as we anticipate there will be a number of organisations wishing to attend Brighton to protest and demonstrate, or to more generally draw attention to their cause. In the past the vast majority of such demonstrations have been peaceful and we have worked with the organisers to ensure attendees have the opportunity to voice and demonstrate their concerns, within the obvious boundaries of the overall operation.
I am aware that your organisation have demonstrated at previous party conferences or may be seeking to do so this year and I am therefore writing to you to ask that if you are intending to take such action, could you please contact my planning officer, PC Stuart McConachie via and of the following details:–
PC Stuart McConachie, Operation Otter Planning Team, Brighton Police Station, John Street, Brighton, East Sussex
Telephone: 0845 60 70 999 Ext. 50801
Mobile No. 07920740974
Email:
OtterPub.Ord@sussex.pnn.police.uk
Once we receive contact from you, Stuart will arrange a meeting to discuss your intentions and hopefully we can then work together to ensure a peaceful and positive demonstration/protest.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Cliff Parrott
T/Chief Superintendent
Key Task Commander for Operation Otter –
Public Order
Sussex Police are once again responsible for policing this year’s Labour Party Political Conference which is scheduled to take place in Brighton between Saturday 26 September and Thursday 1 October 2009. As always with these party conferences, a significant security operation will be put in place. Sussex Police refer to this policing operation as Operation Otter.
For this year’s Operation Otter I have responsibility for planning for Public Order events as we anticipate there will be a number of organisations wishing to attend Brighton to protest and demonstrate, or to more generally draw attention to their cause. In the past the vast majority of such demonstrations have been peaceful and we have worked with the organisers to ensure attendees have the opportunity to voice and demonstrate their concerns, within the obvious boundaries of the overall operation.
I am aware that your organisation have demonstrated at previous party conferences or may be seeking to do so this year and I am therefore writing to you to ask that if you are intending to take such action, could you please contact my planning officer, PC Stuart McConachie via and of the following details:–
PC Stuart McConachie, Operation Otter Planning Team, Brighton Police Station, John Street, Brighton, East Sussex
Telephone: 0845 60 70 999 Ext. 50801
Mobile No. 07920740974
Email:
OtterPub.Ord@sussex.pnn.police.uk Once we receive contact from you, Stuart will arrange a meeting to discuss your intentions and hopefully we can then work together to ensure a peaceful and positive demonstration/protest.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Cliff Parrott
T/Chief Superintendent
Key Task Commander for Operation Otter –
Public Order
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Comments
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Is this a spoof?
03.07.2009 12:24
Indymedia UK has demonstrated or may be intending to demonstrate? Most unlikely.
A N Other
might not be a spoof
03.07.2009 13:02
Make sure you read the open letters in response.
concerned citizen
eh?
03.07.2009 13:05
oi oi
ivica
03.07.2009 15:48
maybe not a spoof
Communication Break Dance
03.07.2009 22:25
Not only is it troo they are going to go door-to-door and check everyone in the "terrorist zone"
It is all part of the "lack of training for G20" scenario, the law are also to communicate better with protestors and this article is the improved communications folks. Now it is the nasty protestors who do not communicate.
PRoS II
Homepage:
http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthwark.org.uk
G20 committee report
04.07.2009 13:14
"It is no coincidence that those protests which lacked a clear hierarchical structure and did not fully communicate their intentions to the police beforehand were those which experienced the greatest use of force by police."
It also states:
Again we stress the importance of communications between the police and protesters before large-scale events, not least because this will help the police identify violent elements within the protests. Both sides benefit from an orderly protest and it is in the protesters' interest to signal their peaceful intentions beforehand. This would allow the police to focus their energy on those groups who have identified themselves as potentially violent through their lack of communications: "if they choose to engage: great. If they do not then you know what you are dealing with and you police in a different way."
In other words, if you fully co-operate and communicate with police beforehand, you will be treated ok. If not, you have identified yourself as 'potentially violent'. Non-hierarchical groups will therefore always be in the latter group.
Nice.
Fighting Fit
e-mail:
defycops@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage:
http://www.fitwatch.org.uk