Actually, a large number of police officers in the videos state that the police station is a sensitive place or use similar words.
If the didn't think they were "important" they would ignore most of the people that do the videoing and get on with their day job. They often complain about personal cars being videoed. All our cars are videoed. If they don't like it get the law changed. It's not illegal.
The police abused real photographers, including a reporter taking a photo of a sunset and an architect photographing a church under S44 which were events that contributed to the repeal of that section.
And this bloke for grabbing some video of his town, which he does yearly...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dzM56Rkq28
Quite simply, if the police stop getting over interested in these people then the numbers of people videoing would drop away. Simple really.
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