THERE is a supreme irony in the British police complaining about being filmed, campaigners charged today.

Writing on corporate social media platform LinkedIn today, London’s Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley bemoaned that officers have to work “in the glare of hundreds of people ready to film their every moment.

“There aren’t many professions where from the minute you arrive at an incident to the minute you leave, you are filmed and then critiqued by an army of armchair commentators,” he said.