Kevin is coordinator for the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) and has been an activist with the campaigning group Newham Monitoring Project in east London for 24 years. For a decade he was the secretary of the United Families and Friends Campaign, an alliance that brings together custody death families, and helped to organise both the Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign and the Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Met lose on water cannon - for nowNews that the Met won't be allowed to use their water cannon is welcome - but may not be the end of the story.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK#IPCCFail – the police complaints watchdog’s “decade of failure”It's ten years since the Independent Police Complaints Commission was founded, and they've utterly failed.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHumiliated Met police is an enemy of free speechIt shouldn’t come as a great surprise that a powerful institution like the UK's Metropolitan Police, wrong footed...