Jesus Brioprate, you do appear to live in the UK so I apologise for boring you with such a long, boring and condescending post.
My profuse apologies
Stee
No need to apologise mate, if the post was condescending it went way over my head.

(I wish there was a hurr durr de derp derp smiley)
I'm from Belfast, I'm actually the one who snapped the photo of
that dickhead of a cop. Funny thing is I wasn't even trying to photograph him, but the 'loyalist protest' (because parliament and England in general don't see NI as a huge thorn in their side at all) but he just couldn't help himself and walked right into the frame then put up the fingers. I'm trying to sell it to a local paper, if they don't bite; daily mail, if that doesn't work I'll social media it until the police ask (ie threaten me) to take it down, at which point I'll point out that it was in a public place and in no way in violation of their counter-terrorism laws, but I would however sell them the copyright to the image for a measly.... £300.
I don't know about your experiences with the cops, but over here I'd say a good 75% of them sign on just to be dicks. I heard the same story from different people whilst doing community service "yeah before they arrested me they got in the back of the van and gave me a pretty bad beating, when I spoke to the duty sergent about it I was told "do you want to get out today or do you want to be held here until your court date, which will be in about a month; now did you have a bad fall or were you beaten?"
They don't even do their job, I got assaulted by some drunken moron on the 17th and I went to the police no more than 40 yards away, pointed out the dick that attacked me and may have damaged a £900 camera/lens and they basically told me that they couldn't be bothered to deal with it and I should go on down to the station. After that I called 999, gave my location and told them the perpetrator was still sitting around; they said they'd "be right there" which I guess is carefully crafted code for "I'll phone you back in an hour and a half and ask if you're all right", complete and utter dereliction of duty. I contacted the ombudsman and quickly got a letter stating they would like to deal with it 'informally' (ie a slap on the wrist); since the police haven't identified the fucker despite three photos that I handed them on both analogue (prints that I paid £7 for 20 sheets of photo paper) and digital (written to a DVD), I'll push for it to be dealt with formally to the highest degree. As well as that I'll be putting the pictures up on facebook and if/when the person is identified (Belfast is
very small) I'll put on a pair of sap gloves and ensure that the person responsible has a very nasty fall, that or just make sure it's him (compare him to a photo); rugby tackle him and ziptie him as a citizen's arrest, since the police are clearly incapable of doing their job, if he happens to trip up multiple times on the way to the station with his hands ziptied behind his back, oh well; maybe it'll give the cops incentive to do their fucking job.
If I get a hold on him I'll be making sure he is court ordered to pay for the camera to be checked for any faults and serviced, or if the legal system fails me I'll just wait a while and
hypothetically take the law into my own hands
hypothetically.
I take it this law is being passed in May then, yeah? Sick irony there, Miss May gets what she wants, on the 6th of may.
Oh well, at least we can call it the 6,6,1
6 law. Edit: There's for me being thick as pigshit 6/5/16 is the date, yeah?
I'll definitely have to make sure that everything I do is legal by calling crimestoppers when I want to go on a rollercoaster, if I'm buying whipped cream, if I'm having sex or jerking off, etc.
I'd urge you to do the same, as well as contacting your local MP. Mine ceased contact with me after I told him the law was akin to making a forced celibacy law before marriage to cut down on STD transmission.