Some ideas encountered in the information document published five months after the Dale farm eviction hve their place in the annals of local history others are puzzling.
Objectives
1)to maintain the Queen's peace
2)to see that positive action is taken to prevent crime and minimize disorder
3)to enable the targetting of persistentoffenders and minimise disruption by
by efficient gathering and dissemination of intelligence
Other Strategies include:
to.....To comply with our positive obligations under the Human Rights Act,1988 to facilitate peaceful assembly,freedom of expression and protect the rights of all involved in legitimate activity.
.........Where offenses are committed by any person or a group we will seek best evidence with a view to prosecuting those involved.
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An examination of people present at Dale Farm on that day in October suggests that they could be classified in 3 groups-Residents,Human Shield protestors,and the International Press corps.This begs the question...
At which group was all the paramilitary activity directed ?
Surely,judging by the court cases that followed most transgressions involved people obstructing the Bailiffs and most of these were made by people who set up Camp Constant for that very purpose in August -saying they would accept the consequences in order to highlight the cruel nature of the actions being taken by the Council against the Irish Travellers (a recognized ethnic minority) They were trying to show that other solutions might have been adopted other than the maximum display of force.
Force was not proportionate and was used against protestors whom the police-under the Human Rights act - are pledged to assist.
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