Recently there was an article in the Sunday Telegraph’s magazine Seven about the clampdown on public Photography and how Terrorism ‘threats’ is only throwing fuel on an out of control blaze.

It certainly isn’t helped by the latest poster campaign that’s been posted out by the London Police and their poster campaigns.

Possibly the worst thing you can do to counter-​​terrorism is to make people paranoid about other people, especially an already oppressed group of people such as Photographers.

Let experienced officers decide what action to take.

I can’t help but feel these ‘experienced’ officers were the ones that decided to promote unrest and worry in the first place. If the aim of terrorists was to disrupt our day to day lives then they are certainly succeeding with every new law that is put into effect to clamp down on our freedoms.

Why does this remind me of some of the "report suspicious behaviour" posters seen in the background of the film "Children of Men"?

As is pointed out in a comment on this BoingBoing post they do seem worrying like said posters in Children of Men. Great movie in my opinion. Trying to find a screen of that poster but it’s a little difficult might just end up watching the movie again.

So with this in mind I decided to have a little fun with the first poster and just do a little parody. I hadn’t found a high resolution resource at the time of doing this so I had to recreate all the elements myself.

Not meaning to be racist with the ‘non-​​english hotline’ line, just highlighting how few UK base call centres there are and the fact I bet the number they originally put isn’t UK based. What do you reckon 6673 2727 spells out on a mobile phone?

Well it’s all part of my University Summer project.