wrote:
This was forwarded to me for info -


OK Can we have the complete original source (including relevant
headers)?

I wanted to drop you a note about photography on (or even near) LUL
property. Earlier today I took a photograph of the front of Pinner
station, and the footbridge.

Hmm, not as is a footbridge is a 'prohibited place'.

Two BTP officers who had seen this promptly
detained me under section 44(2) of the Terrorism Act 2000
(http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts2000/00011--f.htm#44), and informed
that photographing anything that the Government deems 'critical
national infrastructure' (which includes the Underground) is
prohibited unless written permission from the property owner can be
produced.

As they are in thier powers to do so... There might have been an
'alert' on
over the Christmas period, (There certainly was in respect of
Eurostar..)

My details were then checked against the Police National
Computer, and I was told that a report would be sent to Special
Branch. Had anything suspicious been found on the computer (it
wasn't!) then I could have expected a visit.


Standard checks, after all an average plod isn't going to know a bloke
with a camera is not a terrorist, taking techncial shots.

This is the first time I've heard anything about this (and my day job
is in the government security area, at least in part).
Certainly I
don't recall Underground News warning LURS members about the risks of
photography. And the LU Traffic Circulars contain occasional notes
about allowing photographs except with tripods and flashes.


BTP aren't LU, and have thier own reasons.

That said it does seem a little heavy handed, I mean Pinner isn't
exactly
a hot bed of radical extremists.