I'm a police officer. My name is Sergeant Terry Burns. It's my badge. It's concerning me that you're filming me, sir. Can you answer any questions for me? Please allow my colleague to do her job. Please allow my colleague to do her job, sir. >> No, no, no, no, no. If you're interfering with a police officer in the lawful execution of their duty, I will remind you that that is an offense. Please step out of my way. I'm not in your way. I'm not in your way. You are walking. Do not touch me. Do not touch me. Do not touch me and do not interfere with a police officer. I'm looking at her thin blue line badge. I'm looking at her thin blue line badge. You shouldn't be wearing it. Tell her to take it off. >> I'm not instructed. I will take off your badge. >> The officer. >> Take off your thin blue line badge. It's banned. It's in lawful execution of Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. I don't want to talk to you. >> That is fine. >> Okay. So, go away now. I instructing you. No, you're not instructing me anything. >> Instructing you. Don't you interfere. I'm not talking to her colleague. I'm not talking. I've heard you heard me talk to her. >> When the sergeant accused the auditor of blocking a female officer, the tape tells a different story. The auditor's camera never wanders from the sergeant. So, there's no interference with her duty. Twisting a peaceful recording into a crime isn't just bad training. It's a clear sign of resisting oversight. Even worse, it comes from a sergeant, someone meant to lead by example. Instead, he uses his rank to intimidate a law-abiding filmer with no real justification. >> Have you heard me talk to her? Have you heard me talk to her? Have you heard me talk to her? >> Yes, I have, sir. When? >> When When have Don't lie. You're on camera. It's on your right. And I'm talking to my colleagues. >> No, I've been talking. I said you tell her to take off the badge. >> I asked you. >> Tell her to take that badge off. It's It's against the Met uniform. You shouldn't be wearing it. >> Hey, can we ask what you doing here, though? >> Yeah, I'm looking at you taking off. I want you to take that badge off. So that's what you know what So that's what you know what what I'm doing. Okay. I'm looking at you and telling you to take that badge off >> because you are wearing that badge and I want you to take it off. It's a disgrace. It's a defaced union flag. We'll get in and do your job then. >> Why are you filming people building? >> I can do what I want. I can film the building. >> It's a bit of concern for us, isn't it? Police. Tell me why. Tell me why. >> It's a security police building with people in Am I on a public pavement? >> Am I on a public pavement? Am I in a public pavement? Yes, you said. Yeah. I'm in a public space. So therefore, don't don't come up to me. Don't walk to me. Do not and I'm not listening to you. Do not look on the public. >> I'm on the public pavement filming a building. No, I'm not. You're obstructing it. >> They try to paint the auditor as meddling with a female officer's duties. But the video shows the opposite. He's trained squarely on the sergeant. Spinning a calm recording into an offense isn't an accident. It's a tactic to dodge scrutiny. And coming from a sergeant, that's downright embarrassing. Then they branded him a security risk for filming officers coming and going, "Logic gone missing." He [ __ ] pointed out he's on a public sidewalk free to record. The kicker, the sergeant snars that he's obstructing, even though his own cruiser doors flung open, hogs the street. It's ridiculous. If it weren't so alarming out the way, you keep on coming so close, don't you? You're intimidating me. I'm not intimidating you. Section five. Yeah. You're causing me alarm, harassment, and distress. Okay. I don't care. I do not care. I'm telling you what I'm doing. Tell her to take that badge off. >> Go on. Tell her to take the badge off. >> The badge is defaced union flag. It shouldn't be on your uniform. >> We will seize that phone. >> Oh, you won't. Police and criminal evidence. >> No, you won't. No, you won't. You won't touch my phone on your phone. >> There's no evidence on my phone for you. No, you won't. You won't. If you touch me or my phone will No, I'm not listening to you. I keep on telling you. No, you don't need to get close to me. Step away and stop pointing your finger. No, you won't. >> This is not difficult, sir. All right. All right, then. When I told you you won't take my phone, >> you're telling me what, sir? >> You won't take my phone. >> If I feel there's evidence evidence on your phone as what evidence to do what? >> I will take what crime under the police? What crime? It's not police and criminal act does not allow you to take my phone. You need to articulate a crime. >> It does. >> What's the crime? >> When the sergeant threatens to confiscate the auditor's phone under the Evidence Act, he can't even name a crime. The law only permits seizures when officers reasonably suspect an item holds proof of a real offense. Filming on a public sidewalk, even with police around, fails that test. This isn't a legal mixup. It's blatant power abuse. Waving pace like a threat, he hopes to scare the auditor into handing over his device. But when asked what crime occurred, nothing. No theft, no assault, no wrongdoing. Without a specific charge, there's no right to search your belongings. >> If I What's the crime? >> Well, you have indicated you you're alleging that an officer is wearing something they shouldn't. Sir, >> they they >> Oh, evidence then, sir. >> Evidence for me? >> Yes. Take the evidence from why? >> Why? Why? What crime is it? What crime am I doing? >> Is it a crime to identify a defaced Union flag for police evidence? What do you want? We can seize that, can't we? There's evidence. >> Film yourself. >> Film yourself. >> I don't need to film myself. >> Oh, are you filming me? >> Are you filming me? >> Have you told me? >> You haven't told me you're filming me. >> Are you Have you told me? >> No. >> It's within your policy to state at the first practical at the first first practical opportunity to let me know that you are filming me. Okay. And you haven't even done that, have you? You haven't even gone by your policies. That means you you you're a tyrant policy. It's not a tyrant to do that. Is it? >> Of course it is. Are you mad? You're supposed to be telling people that you're filming them. You know GDPR >> state of protection. When the order points out that policy says officers must state when they're recording, she fires back. That's policy, not law. But these guidelines shape every officer's conduct and safeguard public trust. Ignoring them isn't a minor oversight. It erodess accountability and edges into GDPR risk when a state agent records personal data without proper notification. >> Step on your way. Move your car. It's obstructing. >> You're currently obstructing [clears throat] the public har. >> No, I'm not. I'm walking up and down. So, I'm not currently doing anything. You're currently obstructing the public highway. >> Yeah. >> You're just trying to Now you're trying to lie. I think that's called manifest. Yeah. In public office. Yeah. I think so. >> Don't worry about what it's called. Tell me what pace is. Tell me what crime I'm committing. >> Huh? So, please stop filming. >> Please stop filming. >> I will keep on filming you. I'm allowed to film in the building. He's doing >> my body's camera. >> Thank you for telling me your body came. Thank you for upholding your policy. >> Hold on a second. >> I don't know what's up. >> So, he's filming. Can you talk to my colleague? >> You can talk as much as you like. It's a public face. Make privacy if you want to. Go on then. He's filming cars from No, I wasn't. >> No, I wasn't. Stop lying. Stop lying. >> Stop lying. I wasn't doing that. >> He's coming and out in a personal car. >> No, he's not coming in and out in his personal car. He was going in and I was filming. I didn't go to him and I didn't film his The officer claimed the auditor was filming the sergeant stepping in and out of his vehicle. But in reality, the car had only just arrived. The auditor remained on public pavement, exercising his legal right to record while the sergeant chose to involve himself. By recasting a lawful act as targeting the sergeant's movements, the officer manufactured suspicion to justify further intervention, and the auditor was right to call out that false narrative. >> Off you go. Dismissed. >> Walk of shame. >> Off you go. I'm not being rude. I'm telling him. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. What you say? No, I'm not. Off you go. >> Off you go. Dismissed. >> Excuse me, officer. >> Rud is not a crime. >> Say if this gentleman has any footage on his phone of my car's registration number. >> Okay. I fear under under the terrorism act, unless we prove otherwise, that I'm in danger. >> Yeah. >> And I want this gentleman to understand that if I feel I'm in danger, he's refused to provide any details of what he's doing here. Okay. If I feel that you're trying to identify me personally, sir. >> Did you drive up? Did you drive up? Did I come to you? Did I ask you anything? Did I ask you anything? You stopped your car and you said to me, "What am I doing? Who am I?" So get in your car and go away. >> Stop trying to incriminate people and and abuse the rules and laws. Standing before his team, the sergeant invokes a terrorism act simply because his car's registration was filmed, a claim with no legal footing. License plates in public view aren't specially protected, and no court has ruled that photographing them equals terror activity. Section 43 only allows stops when there's a genuine suspicion of terrorism. Feeling uneasy about a visible plate on the street doesn't even come close to meeting that test. >> Your visits. >> She's wearing a defaith union flag and she should take it off. That's what she should be doing. You should be telling her to take off or he, she, them, however she wants to be represented, that she shouldn't be wearing a defaced union flag on her uniform. That muppet, whoever he is, no, I can tell I can call him a muppet. >> Because I can call you, it's not a swear word, is it? Is muppet a swear word? Is muppet a swear word? Is muppet a swear word? I'm asking you. No. So, I can call him a muppet, can't I? >> What's the purpose of Can I call him a muppet? >> Can I call him a muppet? Is it a swear word? Don't be civil. not your mate. Okay, if you want to be civil, go inside, leave me alone because I'm doing nothing wrong. Okay, off your pop. >> What is the purpose of your business? >> It all kicked off when a sergeant falsely accused our auditor of getting in a female officer's way. The footage, however, tells the real story. His camera never strayed from the sergeant, and he never approached her. This kind of bait in switch is a classic move to dodge scrutiny, especially alarming coming from someone meant to set the bar. Next, they tried to brand him a security risk simply for filming officers coming and going calmly. He reminded them he was standing on a public sidewalk exactly where the law lets anyone record. Meanwhile, the sergeant's own police cruiser sat half in the street, doors wide open and blocking traffic, obstructing what exactly? Then came the threat to confiscate his phone under Pace. When asked what crime had occurred, the sergeant stumbled. Pace only allows seizures when there's reasonable suspicion of a specific offense, which doesn't include lawful recording, waving legal jargon like a sword. He hoped to scare the auditor into compliance. But without an actual charge, there was no power to search a citizen's device. When told that policy requires officers to announce recordings, the female conible retorted, "That's policy, not law, but those guidelines exist to preserve trust and ensure GDPR compliance." State agents must notify people they're collecting personal data, ignoring that Standard undermines transparency and flirts with legal risk. To make matters worse, the officer lied to her colleagues, claiming the auditor had filmed the sergeant stepping in and out his car when the guy hadn't even arrived yet. That spin was meant to paint innocent filming as suspicious targeting, all to justify more intervention. The sergeant's grand finale was to invoke the terrorism act simply because his license plate appeared on camera, a claim with zero legal basis. Section 43 only applies when there's genuine suspicion of terrorist activity, not discomfort over a public license plate. Finally, facing contradiction after contradiction, the sergeant slunk back into his car and drove off. His aggressive approach, refusal to follow basic policy, and misuse of legal terms weren't just unprofessional. They were a breakdown in leadership and respect for public rights. When officers treat lawful recording as a crime, they erode the credibility of the entire force. That's a wrap for today's episode. If you found this insightful, hit like, drop a comment, and subscribe. It really helps me keep bringing you independent coverage. And don't forget to check out Yardley Ski Auditing. Links in the description. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. I work as a policeman. Sergeant Terry Burns is my name. [music] It's my badge. The fact that you're filming me worries me, sir. Do you have any answers for me? Let my colleague do her job, please. Permit my colleague to perform [music] her duties, please. I'm Sir. No, no, no, no. I will remind you that it is illegal to obstruct a police officer from carrying out their duties in a lawful manner. Move out of my way, please. >> I don't stand in your path. I don't stand in your path. Don't touch me. You're trying to avoid touching me and getting in the way of a police officer. [music] Gazing at her thin blue line insignia, I lost myself. Her small blue line badge is what I'm observing. You ought not to wear it. Tell her to remove it. [music] I'm not a teacher. Don't speak to me. Don't speak to me. I'd rather not speak with you. That's okay. All right. Now, leave. I am teaching you. [music] No, you're not giving me any instructions. telling you that you heard me speak to her and [music] that you will be punished if you interfere with the execution of hurt. The audio was played when the sergeant accused the auditor of obstructing a female officer. Conveys a distinct narrative. There is no interference with the sergeant's duties because the auditor's camera never leaves her side. [music] It's not only poor training to turn a harmless recording into a crime. It's an obvious indication of avoiding supervision. Even even worse, it originates from a sergeant who is supposed to set an example. Instead, without any legitimate reason, he intimidates a law-abiding filmmaker by using his position. Did you hear what I said to her? Did you hear what I said to her? Did you hear me? Speak to her. Yes, sir, I have. When? When? Don't tell lies. The camera is on you. You'll find it on your right. Conversing with my coworker. No, I have been conversing. Tell her to remove the badge, I urged. I was asked. [music] I questioned you. Request that she remove the badge. It is in opposition to the Met uniform. You ought not to wear it. What are you doing here? Hello. Yes, I am watching you take off. Please remove that badge for me. You know what? That's what thus you are aware of what I am doing. [music] All right. I'm telling you to take a look at yourself. That badge off since I want you to remove the one you're wearing. [music] It's shameful. The Union flag is being defaced. We'll enter and carry out your duties there. You're recording folks constructing. [music] I am free to do as I like. I'm able to record the construction. We're a little worried about it, aren't we? [music] Safeguard the cops. Tell me why. Tell me why people are entering a security police building. Am I on a public sidewalk, too? Is this a public sidewalk? Am I on a public sidewalk? You said yes. Yes, I'm out in the open. Therefore, please don't approach me. Don't approach me on foot. I'm not listening to you, so don't avoid paving. I'm filming a building on a public sidewalk. No, I'm not. You're getting in the way. They attempt to portray the auditor as interfering with the work of a female cop. The video, however, demonstrates the reverse. He received direct training [music] from the sergeant. A communication recording being spun. Communication recording being spun.