Forward Intelligence Team
- Forward Intelligence Team
Forward Intelligence Teams are units in UK police forces that use cameras, camcorders and audio recorders to conduct overt surveillance of the public. The police officers wear full uniform, and are intended to be a high visibility presence.
The teams first appeared as part of the Public Order Intelligence Unit (CO11), a section of the Public Order Branch of the Metropolitan Police, and were initially targeted at football fans and political protesters. The approach has since been extended to routine police work on low-level crime and disorder.
Despite the implication in the name that their function is to gather intelligence they are intended to have more of a deterrent effect.Fact|date=October 2008
References
* cite web
date = 2006-05-25
url = http://www.essex.police.uk/cms/global/documents/n_0605lw.pdf
title = FIT Policing is Here to Stay
work = The Law
publisher = Essex Police
accessdate = 2006-09-06
External links
*" [http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news54.htm WANTED!] ". 21 December 1995, "SchNEWS" 54.
*George Monbiot, " [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/1996/08/29/defective-inspectors/ Defective Inspectors] ". 29 August 1996, "The Guardian"
*Alan Lodge (Tash), " [http://tash.gn.apc.org/watched1.htm#indexG All about my 'BIG BROTHER'…!!] ". January 1999.
*Matt Salusbury, " [http://www.newstatesman.com/200309150014 Caught on camera] ". 15 September 2003, "New Statesman"
*Matt Salusbury, " [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20031019/ai_n12748779 The Police Paparazzi] ". 19 October 2003, "Independent on Sunday"
*Claire Provost, " [http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/elections-2008/2008/05/fit-team-city-hall-police-bnp Is this what a police state looks like?] ", 3 May 2008, New Statesman"
*Paul Lewis, " [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/30/ukcrime.youthjustice Harass a hoodie: how Essex police take surveillance to the streets] ", 30 May 2008, "The Guardian"
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