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Poll says police are too heavy handed with peaceful protests

By staff writers
3 Sep 2009

A new opinion poll released this week by Christian Aid reveals that 50 per cent of UK adults believe the police are too heavy-handed or deploy too many officers when dealing with peaceful protests.

The YouGov survey, released to launch the international development agency's new campaigning action, the Mass Visual Trespass at an East Shropshire power plant (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/10141), shows 93 per cent of respondents think everyone in the UK should have the right to peaceful protest.

Almost one fifth (18 per cent) said they would think twice about taking part in a future protest as recent incidents involving the police at the G20 summit in London have made people worried about their safety.

A third (33 per cent) of respondents are unhappy about the police filming individuals taking part in protests as they say it makes them feel like criminals, is an invasion of privacy and is another example of a ‘Big Brother’ society.

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