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Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban
‘This is not the work I came into the police to be doing.’
Police officers detain an 89-year-old protester, named La, during a rally organized by 'Defend Our Juries', challenging the British government's proscription of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, in Parliament Square, London on 9 August 2025.
Enforcing the Palestine Action ban is exhausting, unsustainable and making cops miserable, Met officers, government lawyers and the police federation have told Novara Media.
One officer described feeling “ashamed and sick” when they arrested a disabled person on terror charges. “That feeling won’t leave me anytime soon,” they said. Another told an arrestee it’s “not the work I came into the police to be doing”.
A Police Federation spokesperson, meanwhile, criticised the fact there are “no ‘extra’ officers” to police Palestine Action protests, putting London’s Met police in particular at high risk of burnout. “Officers are emotionally and physically exhausted,” the spokesperson said. “The demand is relentless. And it’s not sustainable.”
Police have arrested over 700 people since Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation on 5 July. At the largest protest, in Parliament Square on 9 August, nearly half (49.9%) of the 532 people arrested were aged 60 or older, according to the Met. It was the largest mass arrest in London since 1961. Nearly 100 of those detained were in their 70s, and 15 were in their 80s.
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