Reply to post: Apparently Security Guards have no rights and could be guilty of assault.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

tonypreece22
Alien

Apparently Security Guards have no rights and could be guilty of assault.

Check out this article, http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/14/photographers-rights-the-ultimate-guide/, clearly states, "Security guards - Unlike police officers, security guards have no powers to stop and search. They are members of the public, and as a result they can’t obstruct you from taking pictures if you’re standing on public land, nor can they ask you to delete any shots.

Anyone who demands you should, and uses threatening behaviour, could be committing assault.

Similarly, if they use force to take your camera or memory card then not only could they commit assault, but also the civil tort of trespass to goods and trespass to person. If they withhold your camera or memory card then it’s theft and a criminal offence. In this situation, call the police."

I think the photographer should have called the police. We cannot have security people going around threatening the general public, they are not the police and we have not given our consent to be policed by them.

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