Every federal state has is own law, some simply don't mention an obligation to carry an ID-card, other explicitly state that there is no obligation to carry one (e.g. for Brandenburg see http://www.landesrecht.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php?gsid=land_bb_bravors_01.c.14194.de § 1 (6), last sentence: "Eine Mitführungspflicht für den Ausweis besteht nicht.").This all is knew to me (and to the law enforcement people I came across so far), seemingly we are living in different countries...
........Sir Paul was in total agreement that his officers had been too heavy handed, and was going to make sure that all his officers were aware of the legislation surrounding this sensitive subject. He continued to say that it is his belief that a photographer should be able to photograph what he so wishes in the city without being harassed.(or words to that effect)
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I can remember growing up how we made fun of the Soviets for this very proclivity. The fact that we have seen the enemy, and it is us, and that some persons actually tolerate this nonsense in the support of some hallucinatory idea of public safety shows just how fat and dumb people have become. Only blinding ignorance could enable support for such an idea.
("what are you doing?" "what are you going to use the pictures for?" "who ['that's WHOM'] do you work for?"), they asked for the film. I gave it to them. A roll of expired 400tx.
I love this country....
They have a right to stop and ask you some questions.
We're seeing a dress rehearsal for fascism. It's just so completely obvious that harassing photographers has got absolutely nothing to do with combating terrorism.
I'm not keen on letting fascism creep slowly into place. You have to stop it at step one.
On El Reg today, even the Home Office think the police are being a bit too free and easy in their approach to harassing photographers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/07/gov_photography/
Is this a remainder from the German occupation? Luckily enough we don't have such laws in Germany any more. You don't have to take your ID with you and the police can check your identity only in certain areas and when they have a concrete suspicion based on facts (which they must be able to proof in court). Even when they have to check your identity you have to hand over your ID only if you carry it with you (though it is a good idea to have it with you in these areas since they may take you to the police station (without a fine!) if you can't give reasonable evidence of your identity).As far as the law goes in Holland: you have to carry an indentity card/passport with you ALL the time outside your house and show it to the police when they ask for it, otherwise you will be taken into custudy until you ID has been proven and you will be fined.
Interestingly enough it is now forbidden there for commercial purposes, since the public(!) trust who owns the castle and the gardens does not consider them a public space (see http://www.markus-roehling.eu/?p=234).At Potzdam everybody took pic's of the castle down there, have been to Potzdam many times during the DDR and never had problems.
Photographing people is a different issue if they are the main motive of a picture, though nobody has the right to become violent.In Holland just the islamic people don't want to be photographed, if you do, they can get pretty violent.
No guessing. Those that are marked. In Berlin there are two such objects, where photographing is actually forbidden, but since the area where you may not photograph is not marked, you are allowed to photograph them.Militairy objects ? Which ones ? A bit of common sence I guess.
Be happy in the fact they let you continue to photograph at that location.
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