MPA Civil Liberties Panel: 5 November open meeting

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21 October 2009

Policing Public Order - come and have your say!

The MPA Civil Liberties Panel is holding an open meeting on Thursday 5 November 2009 09:30 – 12:30 in London’s Living Room, City Hall, as part of its review of the events surrounding the G20 demonstrations.

The Civil Liberties Panel was introduced in Met Forward, the MPA's mission statement for London’s police, as a means of securing public confidence in policing tactics in the capital and ensuring the Met maintains public trust.

Victoria Borwick, MPA member and chair of the panel, said:

“The open meeting on 5 November at City Hall is the perfect opportunity for Londoners to come along and voice their views on the three main themes we have identified:

• police planning for the day;
• policing the event (marches/demonstrations);and
• communications before, during and after G20

“We would particularly welcome firsthand accounts from those who were actually there. We want to engage as widely as possible with individuals and groups who believe they can contribute to our examination of the events that took place on 1 and 2 April 2009. It is important that we gather as much constructive input as possible to inform our final report, which we expect to present in the New Year.

“This report, which will look at how we can balance the rights of the individual to protest and the requirements on the police to uphold public order, will benefit immensely from all the public’s insight.”

If you would like to be involved, please supply your name, email address (or other contact details), the name of the organisation if you are representing one, and whether you have any special requirements for attending, together with a summary of the key points you wish to make, to ppo@mpa.gov.uk or by hand (to avoid postal problems) to MPA Oversight and Review, 10 Dean Farrar Street, London SW1H 0NY.

If you are unable to attend, we will be happy to receive written submissions. Again, these should be emailed or delivered to the addresses provided above and ideally should be no more than 2 pages.

Notes to Editors

1. Met Forward
   ‘Our duty, as London’s police authority, is to ensure the Met restores and maintains public trust. In order to support this, we will establish a Civil Liberties Panel of Authority members that will begin its work with a formal civil liberties scrutiny of the Met’s public order policing of violent disorder. Once the initial scrutiny is complete, the panel will continue both to monitor the situation and hear specific concerns from the public and human rights organisations.’ www.mpa.gov.uk/publications/metforward
2. Date and time and venue for the open meeting: Thursday 5 November 2009 09:30 – 12:30. London’s Living Room, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London, SE1 2AA.
3. The open meeting will be recorded and the webcast made available on the MPA website after the meeting.
4. For more information about the Civil Liberties Panel please visit: www.mpa.gov.uk/clp/#meeting

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