Val Swain

Val Swain is a founder and director of Netpol, a coalition of community and activist based support groups, which monitors policing and challenges practices which may be unlawful, excessive or damaging

Disruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest

From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of intelligence-led policing. Deployed within the policing of protest, it poses a grave threat to the exercise of dissent.

By Val Swain

/ 8 Aug 2013