Cleveland Police Counter Terrorism

A Cleveland Police Counter Terrorism spokesperson came in to talk to both photography and film students about how suspicious we can look while out with the cameras and the way the police are trained to ask questions about who we are/what we are doing/why we are photographing and to maybe see the photographs, however they should not delete our photographs or ruin the film as it is against the law and they would be deleting evidence if they needed it.

The talk made me realise how suspicious photographing and filming can look and it maybe that the police officers are tired after a long shift and would not want to start an argument so we were asked to keep calm and explain who we are, our university and why/what we are photographing.