There are really two issues here: the behaviour of the pain-in-the-whatsitsname who was in effect being a nuisance to the guy doing his job; and the defensiveness of the police regarding being filmed. As far as I know, there is no law against filming in a public place.
"I find it very disapointing that the Police let the chap film them when they visitied his house..." This is even less of an issue, surely - they were on his private property and that surely strengthens his right to film them.
I don't defend the unpleasant behaviour of the chap who was filming, but it wasn't the filming in itself that was the problem.
Edited by FP on 19/08/2014 at 13:06
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