Metropolitan police officers have been instructed to increase intelligence-gathering activities at London schools in response to the Israel-Hamas war, ramping up concerns among human rights groups about the surveillance of children.
Officers were briefed to “increase their visible patrols” at schools and engage with school staff in order to obtain information about “community tensions”, according to a letter sent to headteachers. In the document, Det Ch Supt Clair Kelland said the results of communications between the police officers and school staff would be “fed back to help our intelligence and information-gathering”.
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Source: The Guardian