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<\/span>PAGE 1: Home Office photo guidance delayed <\/p>\n

\"Police<\/img>Home Office guidance designed to ensure that police officers do not misuse anti-terrorism legislation when dealing with photographers, has been delayed, Amateur Photographer<\/em> (AP) has learnt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March, counter-terrorism minister Vernon Coaker invited the magazine<\/a> to help draft guidance relating to officers’ use of Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 which came into force in February.<\/p>\n

The Home Office plans to distribute the guidance, in the form of a circular, to all police forces.<\/p>\n

The new law makes a photograph of a police constable a potential crime if police deem it likely to be useful to a terrorist.<\/p>\n

But a Home Office source said yesterday that a draft copy of the police circular has been delayed owing to a wider review linked to last month’s announcement that police plan to scale back<\/a> their use of routine stop-and-search powers. <\/p>\n

The move, by the Metropolitan Police’s watchdog, followed a review of officers’ use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act amid widespread criticism from sections of the public.<\/p>\n

However, the Home Office assured AP that it still plans to issue the Section 76 guidance, a draft copy of which will be sent to the magazine for comment ahead of its publication and distribution to police nationwide.<\/p>\n

And, the source claimed, the guidance would not be put in jeopardy by this week’s resignation of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.<\/p>\n

Turn to page 2<\/a> for comments from the counter-terrorism minister about Section 76.<\/p>\n

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<\/span>PAGE 2: Policing minister: ‘You can take pictures of police officers’<\/p>\n

In a separate move earlier this week, counter-terrorism minister Vernon Coaker spoke about the impact of Section 76 on the press.<\/p>\n

According to journalists’ publication Press Gazette<\/a>, he told a parliamentary committee looking into police treatment of photojournalists at the G20 protests: ‘You can take pictures of police officers, you can take pictures of uniformed personnel, there is nothing in law that says you can’t do that.<\/p>\n

‘Frankly, you can see it everyday outside parliament, people stood next to police officers, posing for photographs. So, you know, there is nothing in law that says that.’<\/p>\n

He added: ‘There are occasions when people are prevented from taking a photograph, and you kind of think: why are you being prevented from taking a photograph in this way?<\/p>\n

‘We know the intent of the legislation was the prevention of taking photographs of military personnel or police officers in a way which was about how to prepare for terrorist acts and it certainly shouldn’t be used for routine prevention of the taking of photos.’<\/p>\n

Fearing that the new legislation would lead to further ‘abuse’ of police powers, hundreds of photographers staged a demonstration<\/a> outside New Scotland Yard in London on 16 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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