Dear Scroobal
What I could never fathom was this, the no's of CID personnel videotaping opposition events, all in plain clothes. I mean honestly in the UK, the arrests were done by the constables albeit the more well built variety both female and male, surveillance was done by the bobbies for more mundane day to day "violent" "civil disobedience sorts", with Special Branch and CID just leaving your run of the mill peaceful and non peaceful protestors alone and in stead targeting organizers and instigators and those planning extreme violence.
Locke
Like I said before, the Police don't seem to know what general Police tactics are. When there are minor civil unrest, unform constables in the West handle and do it quickly. I raised this on a thread before. You don't even see a Sgt.
When the 1st such incident took place, an ASP turned up with their so called lightning force at CPF building to handle Yap and few others holding on placards. Now its DSP.
Why plainclothes is indeed a big riddle.