Kevin Blowe

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.

The Met lose on water cannon - for now

News that the Met won't be allowed to use their water cannon is welcome - but may not be the end of the story.

By Kevin Blowe

/ 14 Mar 2015

#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.

By Kevin Blowe

/ 3 Apr 2014

Humiliated Met police is an enemy of free speech

It shouldn’t come as a great surprise that a powerful institution like the UK's Metropolitan Police, wrong footed and deeply embarrassed by the student protest at Millbank on 10 November, would throw its resources into a major operation to hunt down the protesters who had humiliated them.

By Kevin Blowe

/ 16 Nov 2010