• Facebook
  • Twitter
x

MARK KERRISON | Photojournalist

  • Live News Feed
  • Slideshows
  • About
    • About
    • Data Protection
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact
Show Navigation
Cart Lightbox Client Area

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
Next
{ 2745 images found }
twitterlinkedinfacebook

Loading ()...

  • London, UK. 24th March, 2023. An armed police officer passes in front of the door of 10 Downing Street shortly before the arrival of Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, to meet Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for talks.
    Benjamin-Netanyahu-Downing-St-036.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-007.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer walks with a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ after issuing a warning using it to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-032.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-031.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-002.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-024.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-013.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 11 February, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer reads from a book entitled ’Counter Terrorism Policing’ as he issues a warning to an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion who had been ‘slow walking’ in front of a truck delivering a JCB forklift truck to a HS2 site. The activist was subsequently arrested.
    HS2-counter-terrorism-arrests-028.jpg
  • Windsor, UK. 19th September, 2022. A mounted police officer accompanies Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery along the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park prior to the procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin to St George’s Chapel for the Committal Service. Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96 on 8th September 2022 after a reign lasting 70 years.
    Death-of-Queen-Elizabeth-II-267.jpg
  • A police officer passes animal rights activists holding signs at a designated protest site outside Epsom Downs racecourse shortly before the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. Activists from groups including Animal Rising and Animal Aid regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures for the Epsom Derby. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-011.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 24 July, 2020. Larch (l), an environmental activist from HS2 Rebellion, negotiates terms with a police officer (r) to come down from a line above the river Colne attached to an ancient alder tree which he was trying to protect from destruction in connection with works for the HS2 high-speed rail link in Denham Country Park. A large policing operation involving the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley Police, City of London Police and Hampshire Police as well as the National Eviction Team was put in place to enable HS2 to destroy the tree.
    HS2-Denham-alder-tree-felling-045.jpg
  • London, UK. 14th October, 2022. A Metropolitan Police officer monitors a revolving sign outside New Scotland Yard which had been spray painted by a climate activist from Just Stop Oil to call on the UK government to cease issuing oil and gas licences. Some activists also used glue and lock-on tubes to block the road in front of New Scotland Yard. The Metropolitan Police made 24 arrests on suspicion of wilful obstruction of the highway and/or conspiracy to commit criminal damage.
    Just-Stop-Oil-Scotland-Yard-030.jpg
  • London, UK. 20th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests a non-violent climate activist who had blocked a road at Vauxhall Cross in solidarity with the nine Insulate Britain campaigners jailed three days previously by a High Court judge. Over a hundred activists from groups including Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain blocked Lambeth Bridge for around 5 hours in breach of an injunction and Vauxhall Cross for around 3 hours. The Metropolitan Police made 124 arrests.
    Insulate-Britain-Highway-9-023.jpg
  • Epsom, UK. 3rd June, 2023. A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-059.jpg
  • A Sussex Police officer is pictured alongside Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-049.jpg
  • Harefield, UK. 8 February, 2020. A police officer speaks to environmental activists from Save the Colne Valley, Stop HS2 and Extinction Rebellion blocking a HS2 vehicle during action to prevent HS engineers from carrying out tree felling works for the high-speed rail project. The activists were successful in preventing any of the scheduled tree felling by HS2 and after an intervention by a police officer all tree felling work has now been cancelled for the weekend.
    HS2-tree-felling-Harvil-Road-037.jpg
  • London, UK. 13 October, 2019. A police officer serves a notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to a disabled climate activist from Extinction Rebellion during a protest outside New Scotland Yard against tactics employed by police officers which impinge on the right to protest of disabled activists, including the confiscation of wheelchairs,  wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets and tents.
    XR-New-Scotland-Yard-disabled-005.jpg
  • London, UK. 13 October, 2019. A police officer serves a notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to a disabled climate activist from Extinction Rebellion during a protest outside New Scotland Yard against tactics employed by police officers which impinge on the right to protest of disabled activists, including the confiscation of wheelchairs,  wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets and tents.
    XR-New-Scotland-Yard-disabled-006.jpg
  • Windsor, UK. 4 June, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer takes a photograph of hundreds of young people taking part in a peaceful protest march along the Long Walk in front of Windsor Castle in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The march was organised at short notice by Jessica Christie at the request of her daughter Yani, aged 12, following the death of George Floyd while in the custody of police officers in Minneapolis in the United States.
    Black-Lives-Matter-Windsor-041.jpg
  • London, UK. 13 October, 2019. A police officer serves a notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to a disabled climate activist from Extinction Rebellion during a protest outside New Scotland Yard against tactics employed by police officers which impinge on the right to protest of disabled activists, including the confiscation of wheelchairs, wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets and tents.
    XR-New-Scotland-Yard-disabled-019.jpg
  • London, UK. 13 October, 2019. A police officer serves a notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to a disabled climate activist from Extinction Rebellion during a protest outside New Scotland Yard against tactics employed by police officers which impinge on the right to protest of disabled activists, including the confiscation of wheelchairs,  wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets and tents.
    XR-New-Scotland-Yard-disabled-004.jpg
  • London, UK. 13 October, 2019. A police officer serves a notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to a disabled climate activist from Extinction Rebellion during a protest outside New Scotland Yard against tactics employed by police officers which impinge on the right to protest of disabled activists, including the confiscation of wheelchairs, wheelchair ramps, accessible toilets and tents.
    XR-New-Scotland-Yard-disabled-014.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A police officer works to remove an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-067.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer speaks to a campaigner holding two placards during a protest rally by trade union members opposite Downing Street against the UK government's Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on 30 January 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The emergency protest was organised by Enough Is Enough and the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom to demonstrate trade union resistance to the Bill which would curtail the right to strike and withhold labour by giving the Business Secretary powers to set minimum service levels relating to transport, health, fire and rescue, education, nuclear and border security.
    Defend-Right-To-Strike-rally-004.jpg
  • London, UK. 8th October, 2022. A Metropolitan Police officer asks protesters forming a human chain around Parliament to demand the release of imprisoned whistleblower Julian Assange to move. The former Home Secretary Priti Patel approved an extradition order on 17th June 2022 to extradite Julian Assange to the United States.
    Human-chain-for-Assange-058.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A police officer works to remove an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-073.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-068.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer uses a solvent to release an Insulate Britain climate activist glued to a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-028.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises to fully fund the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-044.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises to fully fund the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-114.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions on 4th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-013.jpg
  • London, UK. 23rd August, 2021. Valerie Brown, Burning Pink London Mayoral candidate, speaks to a Metropolitan Police officer at a cordon around environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion in the Covent Garden area on the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • Sipson, UK. 8th March, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer uses coronavirus legislation to ask a man to vacate the area during an operation to evict residents from the remaining section of a squatted off-grid eco-community garden known as Grow Heathrow. Grow Heathrow was founded in 2010 on a previously derelict site close to Heathrow airport in protest against government plans for a third runway and has since made a significant educational and spiritual contribution to life in the Heathrow villages which are threatened by airport expansion.
    Grow-Heathrow-camp-eviction-027.jpg
  • Sipson, UK. 8th March, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer facilitates the eviction of residents from the remaining section of a squatted off-grid eco-community garden known as Grow Heathrow. Grow Heathrow was founded in 2010 on a previously derelict site close to Heathrow airport in protest against government plans for a third runway and has since made a significant educational and spiritual contribution to life in the Heathrow villages which are threatened by airport expansion.
    Grow-Heathrow-camp-eviction-001.jpg
  • Sipson, UK. 8th March, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer facilitates the eviction of residents from the remaining section of a squatted off-grid eco-community garden known as Grow Heathrow. Grow Heathrow was founded in 2010 on a previously derelict site close to Heathrow airport in protest against government plans for a third runway and has since made a significant educational and spiritual contribution to life in the Heathrow villages which are threatened by airport expansion.
    Grow-Heathrow-camp-eviction-013.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-113.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-071.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-070.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-063.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who took part in a blockade of roads around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-092.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer works to remove Insulate Britain climate activists who used superglue to block roads around Parliament Square for five hours as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-045.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A police officer removes banners from Insulate Britain climate activists using superglue to block roads around Parliament Square for five hours as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises to fully fund the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-041.jpg
  • London, UK. 23rd August, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer asks environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion to move out of a road in the Covent Garden area during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • Sipson, UK. 8th March, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer facilitates the eviction of residents from the remaining section of a squatted off-grid eco-community garden known as Grow Heathrow. Grow Heathrow was founded in 2010 on a previously derelict site close to Heathrow airport in protest against government plans for a third runway and has since made a significant educational and spiritual contribution to life in the Heathrow villages which are threatened by airport expansion.
    Grow-Heathrow-camp-eviction-023.jpg
  • Sipson, UK. 8th March, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer facilitates the eviction of residents from the remaining section of a squatted off-grid eco-community garden known as Grow Heathrow. Grow Heathrow was founded in 2010 on a previously derelict site close to Heathrow airport in protest against government plans for a third runway and has since made a significant educational and spiritual contribution to life in the Heathrow villages which are threatened by airport expansion.
    Grow-Heathrow-camp-eviction-018.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer picks up a smoke grenade set off by students attending a National Demonstration for a Free Education on 4th November 2015 in London, United Kingdom. The demonstration was organised by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) in protest against tuition fees and the Government’s plans to axe maintenance grants from 2016.
    Students-free-education-demo-033.jpg
  • London, UK. 11th May, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer asks activists from Palestine Action to move back during a protest outside the UK headquarters of Elbit Systems, an Israel-based company developing technologies used for military applications including drones, precision guidance, surveillance and intruder-detection systems. The activists were protesting against the company's presence in the UK and in solidarity with the Palestinian people following attempts at forced evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, the deployment of Israeli forces against worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan and air strikes on Gaza which have killed several children.
    Shut-Elbit-Down-protest-021.jpg
  • Epsom, UK. 3rd June, 2023. Racehorses and jockeys pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-070.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a security guard and Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-041.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-002.jpg
  • Racehorses and jockeys pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-021.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-068.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Surrey Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-045.jpg
  • Racehorses and jockeys pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer and crowd safety official on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-037.jpg
  • Racehorses and jockeys pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Surrey Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-014.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-039.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-062.jpg
  • A crowd safety official, Jockey Club official and police officer stand alongside a sign next to Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-019.jpg
  • Security guards and a police officer line Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-055.jpg
  • A police officer from the Tactical Firearms Support Unit uses an observation tower to monitor racegoers at Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures at Epsom in order to counteract a planned protest by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-006.jpg
  • Epsom, UK. 3rd June, 2023. A police officer and crowd safety official stand behind a Jockey Club sign alongside Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-043.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-069.jpg
  • A racehorse and jockey pass along Epsom Downs racecourse behind a Sussex Police officer on the day of the Epsom Derby on 3 June 2023 in Epsom, United Kingdom. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest at Epsom by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-067.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer is silhouetted against murals referencing the Grenfell Tower tragedy as the local community and supporters take part in the Grenfell Silent Walk around West Kensington on 14 June 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The event was organised to mark the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017 as a result of which 72 people died and over 70 were injured. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry concluded in November 2022 that all the deaths in the fire were avoidable but no criminal prosecutions have yet been brought.
    Grenfell-Silent-Walk-6-Years-011.jpg
  • London, UK. 16 October, 2019. A Metropolitan Police officer prepares to arrest Jonathan Bartley (c), co-leader of the Green Party, Guardian journalist George Monbiot (r) and a group of climate activists from Extinction Rebellion using Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 after they sat in the road in Whitehall following a People’s Assembly in Trafalgar Square as part of a protest against the use by the Metropolitan Police of Section 14 so as to prohibit entirely Extinction Rebellion Autumn Uprising protests throughout the capital.
    XR-Right-to-Protest-Trafalgar-016.jpg
  • London, UK. 16 October, 2019. A Metropolitan Police officer serves notice under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to Guardian journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley and a group of climate activists from Extinction Rebellion who sat in the road in Whitehall following a People’s Assembly in Trafalgar Square as part of a protest against the use by the Metropolitan Police of Section 14 so as to prohibit entirely Extinction Rebellion Autumn Uprising protests throughout the capital.
    XR-Right-to-Protest-Trafalgar-032.jpg
  • A police officer talks to a racegoer close to an exit to Royal Ascot on Gold Cup Day on 22 June 2023 in Ascot, United Kingdom. Gold Cup Day, the third day of Royal Ascot, has also been known as Ladies' Day since 1823.
    Royal-Ascot-2023-018.jpg
  • A police officer speaks to a campaigner from anti-monarchy movement Republic protesting in Trafalgar Square following the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on 6 May 2023 in London, United Kingdom. Republic campaigns for the monarchy to be replaced by a democratically elected constitutional Head of State.
    Coronation-King-Charles-III-043.jpg
  • Luton, UK. 5th May, 2012. A police officer gathers intelligence on supporters of Unite Against Fascism attending the We Are Luton/Stop The EDL march, held in protest against a march by the far-right English Defence League.
    2012-We-Are-Luton-demo-055.jpg
  • A police officer talks to a racegoer close to an exit to Royal Ascot on Gold Cup Day on 22 June 2023 in Ascot, United Kingdom. Gold Cup Day, the third day of Royal Ascot, has also been known as Ladies' Day since 1823.
    Royal-Ascot-2023-134.jpg
  • A police officer passes a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II displayed in a shop window on 14th September 2022 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died at Balmoral aged 96 on 8th September after a reign lasting 70 years and will be buried in the King George VI memorial chapel in Windsor following a state funeral in Westminster Abbey on 19th September.
    Death-of-Queen-Elizabeth-II-045.jpg
  • Epsom, UK. 3rd June, 2023. A police officer from the Tactical Firearms Support Unit monitors racegoers at Epsom Downs racecourse on the day of the Epsom Derby. £150,000 was spent on additional security measures in order to counteract a planned protest by activists from Animal Rising who regard horse racing as a cruel and exploitative industry. Surrey Police advised that 31 arrests were made, including 19 pre-emptive arrests.
    Animal-Rising-Epsom-Derby-051.jpg
  • A Thames Valley Police officer monitors members of the public in front of the Corps of Drums of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards on their return to Victoria Barracks following the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Windsor Castle on 27th January 2022 in Windsor, United Kingdom. VisitBritain will launch a £10 million international marketing campaign in February targeting visitors from Europe and the USA.
    Grenadier-Guards-Corps-Drums-002.jpg
  • A local resident speaks to a Metropolitan Police officer during a counter-protest by anti-fascists, LGBTIQA+ people and local residents to a protest by supporters of right-wing nonprofit organisation Turning Point UK against a Drag Queen Story Time event which they believed had been scheduled to take place at the Great Exhibition pub in East Dulwich on 10 March 2023 in London, United Kingdom. Turning Point UK, as well as far-right groups such as Patriotic Alternative, have tried to prevent previous Drag Queen Story Time events from taking place.
    Drag-Queen-Great-Exhibition-016.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-081.jpg
  • London, UK. 23rd August, 2021. A member of the Extinction Rebellion Red Rebel Brigade raises a clenched fist in front of a Metropolitan Police officer during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests in the Covent Garden area. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • London, UK. 23rd August, 2021. A member of the Extinction Rebellion Red Rebel Brigade raises a clenched fist in front of a Metropolitan Police officer during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests in the Covent Garden area. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer asks an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion to move out of a road in the Covent Garden area during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests on 23rd August 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • A member of the Extinction Rebellion Red Rebel Brigade raises a clenched fist in front of a Metropolitan Police officer during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests in the Covent Garden area on 23rd August 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • A member of the Extinction Rebellion Red Rebel Brigade raises a clenched fist in front of a Metropolitan Police officer during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests in the Covent Garden area on 23rd August 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who blocked a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-099.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer speaks to an Insulate Britain climate activist using superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. Activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-115.jpg
  • London, UK. 15th October, 2021. A City of London Police officer liaises with former Occupy London campaigners holding a reunion outside St Paul's Cathedral to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the movement. Occupy London was part of an international Occupy movement for social justice and an Occupy London protest camp was set up next to St Paul's Cathedral on 15th October 2011 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.
    Occupy-London-10-years-on-002.jpg
  • London, UK. 23rd August, 2021. A member of the Extinction Rebellion Red Rebel Brigade looks at a Metropolitan Police officer during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests in the Covent Garden area. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer asks environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion to move out from under a giant table used to block roads in the Covent Garden area during the first day of Impossible Rebellion protests on 23rd August 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Extinction Rebellion are calling on the UK government to cease all new fossil fuel investment with immediate effect. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)
    MK-20210823-Extinction-Rebellion-Imp...jpg
  • London, UK. 10 November, 2020. A Metropolitan Police officer prepares to arrest an environmental activist from Extinction Rebellion outside the Shell Centre on the 25th anniversary of the killings of the Ogoni Nine. The Ogoni Nine, leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 after having led a series of peaceful marches involving an estimated 300,000 Ogoni people against the environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by Shell and to demand both a share of oil revenue and greater political autonomy.
    XR-Ogoni-9-Shell-London-25th-021.jpg
  • A police officer observes housing activists constructing a barricade on the Sweets Way housing estate close to the home of its last surviving resident, Mostafa Aliverdipour, on 23rd September 2015 in London, United Kingdom. A group of housing activists calling for better social housing provision in London had occupied some of the properties on the 142-home estate in Whetstone, in some cases refurbishing properties intentionally destroyed by the legal owners following eviction of the original residents, in order to try to prevent or delay the eviction of Mr Aliverdipour and the planned demolition and redevelopment of the entire estate by Barnet Council and Annington Property Ltd.
    Sweets-Way-estate-eviction-016.jpg
  • London, UK. 10th June, 2018. A police officer films members of a far-right group taunting hundreds of people taking part in the pro-Palestinian Al Quds Day march through central London organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. An international event, it began in Iran in 1979. Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
    Al-Quds-counter-protest-2018-036.jpg
  • London, UK. 3 September, 2019. A Metropolitan Police officer tries to disperse one of hundreds of Quakers, joined by fellow peace activists and representatives of other faith groups, holding a religious service in the access road outside ExCel London as part of the day’s No Faith In War activities in protest against DSEI, the world’s largest arms fair.
    DSEI-2019-No-Faith-In-War-040.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who used superglue to block a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-072.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who took part in a five-hour blockade of roads around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-062.jpg
  • London, UK. 4th November, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who blocked a road around Parliament Square as part of a campaign begun in mid-September to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to lower emissions. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-Parliament-061.jpg
  • London, UK. 15th October, 2021. A City of London Police officer liaises with former Occupy London campaigners holding a reunion outside St Paul's Cathedral to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the movement. Occupy London was part of an international Occupy movement for social justice and an Occupy London protest camp was set up next to St Paul's Cathedral on 15th October 2011 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.
    Occupy-London-10-years-on-004.jpg
  • Sandwich, UK. 4th October, 2021. A Kent Police officer monitors two Palestine Action activists in small tents locked onto a car to block an entrance to the Instro Precision factory in Discovery Park. Instro Precision is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest publicly-traded arms company which markets drones used extensively by the Israeli military in Gaza as 'battle-proven', and it supplies 'high precision military equipment'. Palestine Action contends that equipment sold by Instro Precision has been used by the Israeli military against the civilian population of Gaza.
    Palestine-Action-Instro-Kent-032.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer arrests an Insulate Britain climate activist who had blocked a M25 slip road at Junction 14 close to Heathrow airport as part of a campaign intended to push the UK government to make significant legislative change to start lowering emissions on 27th September 2021 in Colnbrook, United Kingdom. The activists are demanding that the government immediately promises both to fully fund and ensure the insulation of all social housing in Britain by 2025 and to produce within four months a legally binding national plan to fully fund and ensure the full low-energy and low-carbon whole-house retrofit, with no externalised costs, of all homes in Britain by 2030.
    Insulate-Britain-M25-Heathrow-027.jpg
  • London, UK. 6th September, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer monitors a small convoy of vehicles approaching ExCeL London during preparations for the DSEI 2021 arms fair. The first day of week-long Stop The Arms Fair protests outside the venue for one of the world's largest arms fairs was hosted by activists calling for a ban on UK arms exports to Israel.
    Stop-The-Arms-Fair-DSEI-2021-033.jpg
  • London, UK. 6th September, 2021. A Metropolitan Police officer monitors a small convoy of vehicles approaching ExCeL London during preparations for the DSEI 2021 arms fair. The first day of week-long Stop The Arms Fair protests outside the venue for one of the world's largest arms fairs was hosted by activists calling for a ban on UK arms exports to Israel.
    Stop-The-Arms-Fair-DSEI-2021-030.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer monitors a small convoy of vehicles approaching ExCeL London during preparations for the DSEI 2021 arms fair on 6th September 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The first day of week-long Stop The Arms Fair protests outside the venue for one of the world's largest arms fairs was hosted by activists calling for a ban on UK arms exports to Israel.
    Stop-The-Arms-Fair-DSEI-2021-006.jpg
  • A Metropolitan Police officer uses coronavirus restrictions to ask environmental activists from HS2 Rebellion attending a candlelit vigil for the trees to be lost for the HS2 high-speed rail project in Euston Square Gardens to vacate the area on 6 February 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The vigil took place alongside the site of a tunnel in Euston Square Gardens from which bailiffs contracted to HS2 Ltd have been trying to evict nine activists seeking to protect the trees for the past eleven days and also marked the first anniversary of the death of environmental activist Iggy Fox.
    HS2-Rebellion-Vigil-Euston-018.jpg
  • Denham, UK. 7th December, 2020. A Thames Valley Police officer talks to anti-HS2 activists at Denham Ford Protection Camp from a compound to be used by HS2 to bring a bridge across the river Colne and through woodland in Denham Country Park. Activists continue to resist the controversial £106bn high-speed rail project from a series of protest camps based along its initial route between London and Birmingham.
    HS2-Denham-bridge-Swampy-015.jpg
Next