"Thanks folks - I note the question I asked went unanswered - but then I never expected that it would."

So it wasn't a rhetorical question then?

As you know Tezza this is designed to suppress free and fair protest, NOT keeps tabs on potential terrorists (although we all know how that goes - one officer needs a piss, innocent man dies). This is keeping records on innocent protesters who pose no threat to anyone.

The problem is that the police are becoming more remote from the people they are supposed to serve. They beat up and abuse people legitimate protests, kill people without recourse or punishment even when filmed doing so and now they are spying on us if we utter a peep not in line with whatever Orwellian criteria the faceless poultroons in charge decide constitutes some imaginary 'threat'.

Bollocks to the lot of them.