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OCTOnE AT 7.30:EY, THE SOIM LONDON OOPS OUT MOVE-.NnNT ORGANTSINf; A. PUBLIC COINCIIii)Ottii... AND PROTESTAT, 7iF APPOINTMENT OF K,ElSlol „lCAAN AS COMMISSitior OF THE LONDONPSITCF FORCE. SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE JONATHAN ROSENHEAD'o RITI-44 liD;liEri FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN SCIENCE ) AND SO-hE TiRIXTON DEFENCE CAMPAIGN, THE MEETING WILL ,BE .HELL AT..-THE.ABENO CENTRE ON GRESHAM RD., BRIXTON.

BACKGROUND. Tegaita thi!, appointment as a particularly significant step inthe.p0:;;,tic,isatior militarisation of the 3rHtish•Poli,:e force',hot•Ieaet bectOte of. prvious experience in Paiestito and later. Northre. Treiand,tvAnoth tte Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster,in MAY Using the new structUte. that hehae :neon 17:. t.r tal in d - r for the R.U.C., he 1040411 it clanwanten convictions a obtained. " them through the no-.,DirdocK conrts and with " co..-4!'ssions " taken from inspects at' .interrogaton centres in Belfast kr. By suspending the Judge'sRules - a scipe t's CafeqLare it physical and psychological.. AbuSe - Newman waz able to obtain the -tease in convictions.he,60desparately

. .But what alsc ihcrelsed was number of comdlaintii Of assUal4Atiiirs.g3tion r they douh.i. ). These complaints were dealt - .with by the complaints which made a cover-up• cidicaloasly easy. But by the enii ot tie'7, the sittiation had become'so apute that Sam Silken, the Attorney Genera! in the Labour Govern -menh, skst a memo. to James Callaghan warning. him that there was 4.00dr eason to believe that suspects picked up by. the police were beirig , .systematically beaten up. .This was of course confirmdd by the Amnesty Internationalltepott1977 and later by the Government's own Bennet Report ( 1979)..Newman survived his period as Chet Cons cable of theuntil. 1979. b.iring his time, he fought the Labour Government over nitw."-'7,.equipment and won for the R.U.C. riot guns, M1 carbine rifles, 0.18.Luger revolvers and. even hit;h -velocity rifles as well as armouredLand-Rovers.

CONTROL TECHNIQUESSince lcavinu he Tie has been eesearchiec '.1pu1ation control'chniquee as hx-ac, of cLe i,oUce Jtaff College at . ill, and ontIis rl-ire he " had it ye-% mich ir gritishry,ld he with simiThr in the years ahead."r the last ta. -Ar3 we have se, s in 1 ,stol, Toxteth andBrixton to name t,. , few. We have n, ,ice cc niracy at work inthe case of the Bradford 12. Four Pc, Forces, . idiny the Met-ropolitan, have been issued with riot r, 1r and lei a,1 plastic bullets

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