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A police community support officer (PCSO) denies ordering a photographer to delete all his pictures, but admits asking him to delete one after he ?sneaked up? behind her.<\/p>\n

Photo enthusiast John Kelly says he was left humiliated and feeling like a criminal<\/a> after a PCSO ordered him to delete his pictures ? telling him he first needed permission before taking photographs of people in public. <\/p>\n

The incident took place in Blackpool, Lancashire on 8 February. <\/p>\n

However, today Blackpool police gave the officer?s version of events.<\/p>\n

Speaking on behalf of the PCSO, Sergeant Rick Irving told us that the officer claims she requested, rather than demanded, Kelly delete one of his pictures ? an image showing the officer in the frame. <\/p>\n

?She is aware that she has no legal right to demand that he delete the photographs,? Irving told us.<\/p>\n

?She asked him to delete one photograph which he has done. But she says she didn?t ask him to delete any others.? <\/p>\n

Irving said that while the officer is aware of a person?s right to take pictures in a public place he said it would have been courteous to ask the PCSO: ?Look, this is what I am doing ? can I take your photograph??<\/p>\n

The unnamed PCSO claims that Kelly was ?evasive? when asked to produce identification showing him to be a photographer.<\/p>\n

Kelly, an amateur photographer who had been using a non-professional Nikon D40 digital SLR camera, hit back at the police’s response to the incident.<\/p>\n

‘They have tried to make me out as some sort of villain,’ he told us this afternoon. <\/p>\n

Kelly denies he was being evasive towards the officer.<\/p>\n

‘She didn’t ask me for ID… I explained why I was taking photographs… for a competition.’<\/p>\n

Sergeant Irving continued: ?She [the PCSO] just says his general manner was a little bit strange. She felt a little bit uneasy with the way he was taking a photograph of her.?<\/p>\n

When challenged by Amateur Photographer<\/em> magazine regarding the rights of photographers to take pictures in public, Irving declined to discuss the matter further, stressing that the PCSO did not want to have her picture taken.<\/p>\n

?The fact that you are in a uniform doesn?t really change how you are as a human being? your own personal wish to remain anonymous.?<\/p>\n

Irving said the officer concerned will not face disciplinary action as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n

Last week we reported that a picture that had inadvertently remained in Kelly?s camera was used by police to help identify the officer<\/a> at the centre of the controversy.<\/p>\n

Kelly is so incensed about the matter he has written to Michael Jack – MP for Fylde, Lancashire. <\/p>\n

He tells us that his local television station has used his photos on 14 occasions to accompany weather reports on ITV’s Granada Reports<\/em> programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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