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Armed Police Deployments, Nottingham [up to] May 2017 Contacts

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Armed Police Deployments, Nottingham May 2017
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Message from Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Prior. Nottinghamshire Police

Over the last 24 hours we’ve received a number of messages from people who are, understandably, concerned about the increased national threat level.

Firstly, we’d like to reassure you that we have robust plans in place for situations like this, which are regularly tested, and we continuously review these, as well as our resourcing and deployment of resources, in line with the national strategy.

In light of the tragic events in Manchester, we have reviewed all planned events, and continue to assess the appropriate policing response to each event and venue. You are likely to see an increased police presence at events over the coming days – this is a response to the increase in threat level nationally.

We work very closely with our partners across the city and county including local authorities, other emergency services, public transport providers, football clubs and other event venues to ensure we are providing the best possible service to the people of Nottinghamshire.

Some people have asked questions about individual venues’ security arrangements and changes to these. While this is the responsibility of the venue, national guidance has been issued and we continue to work closely with them to advise on their own arrangements.

I hope this goes some way to reassure you but if you do have concerns or questions, please just ask our officers.

I know this is an unsettling time and would encourage people to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321 – remember, it’s better to have multiple people report the same thing than to assume someone else has already reported it.

InstaTash120  A collection of Instagram piccys in a 120min slideshow. 2sec change.

Kinder Scout Mass Trespass : 70th Anniversary

Prepared 3 books online.  These can be seen at :

Photography Business Catalogue – Issuu

https://issuu.com/alanlodge/docs/saal_catalogue_book/1?ff=true

Gathering Together, Fighting for Justice – Issuu

https://issuu.com/alanlodge/docs/gathering_together__fighting_for_ju/1?ff=true

Gatherings:

https://issuu.com/alanlodge/docs/gatherings

Have also been messing about with some layouts from latest creations

https://tashuk.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/book-layouts-an-assortment

Messing about with some layouts from latest creations.

You can view these works online via these links:

My main site at: http://alanlodge.co.uk

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NUJ Officers Course : Passed and finished ….. Yay!

Have now finished the last stage 3 of the NUJ union programme that is aimed at reps who have done Stages 1 and 2. The course brings together the skills and knowledge developed so far. It builds on them by looking at all the issues associated with negotiating on behalf of your members, either individually or collectively.

This course is designed to cover:

• What is meant by negotiating within a trade union context?
• Developing an awareness of key negotiating skills, and when to apply them.
• Developing a strategy, arguments and tactics to support the union’s position.
• Practising preparing for and applying a strategic plan in joint negotiations.

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I have some pictures in this show at the National Justice Museum.

A new exhibition celebrating civil rights

Please go and see. It’s free.
http://www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/event/journey-to-justice

Just uploaded more on Academia.edu
https://nottinghamtrent.academia.edu/AlanLodge

A Train journey through the merk ….. travelling through Edale in the Peak District

Snapshots in the Dark: Eddie Adams – Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0075qhb

Gathering Together, Fighting for Justice – YouTube

Gathering Together, Fighting for Justice – Issuu

I was asked for a piece of work to deal with communities ‘Fighting for Justice’. A large scale set of images that were to support a national touring exhibition when on show at the National Museum of Justice in Nottingham [formerly The Galleries of Justice].

This provided me with the seed of an idea to extend this more widely and include the obvious fact that there has always been considerable opposition to people doing just that.

I have amassed a considerable archive of work since the early 1980’s and editing from this, I’ve attempted to show that there is a common thread of concern on the way we treat each other, the ecology and the planet at large. I have always found that you don’t simply write to your MP and expect a political process to chug away and deal with your concerns and improve the situation. How, nice if it ever did. Generally, it seems a lot of people have to get quite cross about an issue and when there is enough protest, direct action, trouble and strife to highlight what’s wrong, politics and the authorities are dragged screaming and shouting eventually into action.

The police uphold the law. However, it is frequently our experience that they have a considerable action in suppressing activity on behalf of vested interests, whether in government or corporations who use them at their convenience, not ours. They can often appear as an army of occupation not reflecting the values of the community they are supposed to be serving.

In more recent times, an obvious example has been the methods of surveillance employed by agencies such as the Forward Intelligence Units of the Metropolitan Police (who offer their service around the country). The National Public Order Intelligence Unit NPOIU, which exists to counter “domestic extremism”, is so secretive that police will not confirm the precise location of its base or the identity of its head.

According to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary,

“the NPOIU “performs an intelligence function in relation to politically motivated disorder” by “co-ordinating the national collection, analysis, exploitation and dissemination of intelligence on the extremist threat to public order”.

Its database contains entries on protesters – not all of whom have criminal records – including descriptions, nicknames and aliases. Their activities have now become so out of control that undercover police officers have been tasked to spy on citizens engaged in legitimate political actions on environment concern (the Mark Kennedy case, here in Nottingham). Spying in campaigns like on families of those involved in the Hillsborough Disaster, the family of Stephen Lawrence and their campaign and maintaining a ‘blacklist’ to assist some employers in not recruiting staff who might have ideas on worker rights and unions.  Thus, I say their actions frequently exceed simply upholding the law.

I labour some of these points because since as far back as I can remember …… these officers and their kind have been always ‘on my case’.  My ‘Big Brother’, I say he’s a bully!

I am with Judge Hoffman here, when he observed:

“Civil disobedience on grounds of conscience is an honourable tradition in this country and those who take part in it may in the end be vindicated by history.”

Lord Justice Hoffman

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