Britain's Police State: London arrests based on CCTV identification. Britain adopts Chinese model of policing protest?

by Nathan Allonby
Global Research, December 21, 2010



CCTV has led to large scale arrests, following the recent student protests in London, over increased tuition fees. A total of over 180 people have been arrested, with the majority identified by CCTV.

The current arrests very much represent a landmark - we are now equipped for the Chinese approach to public order, in almost a complete reversal previous British policing.

The power of the new system is based on the ability to track down individuals at leisure. However, this ability could be used as easily to track anyone, in “political policingâ€