This snippet, picked up from PhotoRights.org:

The MPS has published advice for photographers who want to take photographs in the capital. The advice covers number of areas and is suitable both for amateur and professional photographers.

Perhaps of most relevance to fitwatchers is the following little paragraph:

Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.

It also clarifies the cops’s use of s.43 and 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and that nasty “s.58a” (though in the latter case I wonder whether the cops have quoted the right piece of legislation?) re photography.

The advice itself can be found here.

Update 23:31 - However, it appears these “guidelines” have been issued without Home Office approval. See this. Doubt if that will make much difference either way though, given how little notice the police generally take of their own guidelines.

Update 10.07.09 18:50 – And now a media law solicitor is saying “the Metropolitan Police’s guide on public photography published yesterday is ’selective’ and flawed”! Check out the British Journal of Photography.

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