Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
Lord Sumption, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, told Radio 4's World At One the actions of Derbyshire Police - which also included uploading drone footage of walkers to social media - had "shamed our policing traditions".

"The tradition of policing in this country is that policemen are citizens in uniform, they are not members of a disciplined hierarchy operating just at the government's command," he said.

"The police have no power to enforce ministers' preferences but only legal regulations which don't go anything like as far as the government's guidance."
The question is-Did the police act illegally or under the powers that they've recently been given? I don't know? Sumpiton is a Barrister with Right leaning Libertarian political views, his thoughts i are just his opinion on the situation?