Peter Imbert

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Peter Imbert was a Met commissioner Peter Imbert. He subseuqently acted as a strategic adviser to the Inkerman Group, which is a company which monitors protestors.

Monitoring protestors

A "restricted" report produced by the company three years ago warns of a growing threat of "eco-terrorism". Under a section on "recent acts of eco-terrorism", the document lists a number of peaceful campaign groups, including the anti-aviation collective Plane Stupid.[1] Arguably it has been this elusive threat of "eco-terrorism", sometimes tainted with the conflation between "illegal" and "violent" protest, that serves to justify the need for both the domestic extremism units and the private security firms.[2]


Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry

Questions have been raised regarding the ethics of "former police officers cashing in on their surveillance skills for a host of companies that target protesters".[1] See the Powerbase overview of the revolving door between the private security industry and the police.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks The Guardian, 14/02/11, accessed 14/02/11
  2. Matilda Gifford Why spy on peaceful protesters? The Guardian, 26/04/09, accessed 17/01/11

Imbert, Peter