Inkerman

<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="en">The Inkerman Group is an international private security company that reportedly monitors protestors. <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-Evans2-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> Former <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Met" title="Met" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Met</a> commissioner Lord <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Peter_Imbert" title="Peter Imbert" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Peter Imbert</a> acts as a strategic consultant for the group.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a>It was set up in 1996 by <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Gerald_Moor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gerald Moor (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Gerald Moor</a>, its CEO, 'to meet the specific intelligence and security needs of businesses'. <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a> It describes itself as 'a specialist risk, intelligence and investigation company', and has offices in Ashford, London and Köln.<table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12.1599998474121px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; width: auto; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; display: inline; background: none;">Contents</h2> [<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Monitoring_protestors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Monitoring protestors</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Transferable_skills_and_alliances:police_and_private_security_industry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Affiliations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Affiliations</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#People" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 People</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Former_consultants.2Fstaff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 Former consultants/staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Clients" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 Clients</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Contact" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7 Contact</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; text-align: left;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#Notes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7.1 Notes</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">Monitoring protestors</h2>According to the Guardian, a "restricted" report produced by the Inkerman Group in 2008 warned of a growing threat of "eco-terrorism". Under a section on "recent acts of eco-terrorism", the document listed various peaceful campaign groups, including the anti-aviation collective <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Plane_Stupid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plane Stupid (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Plane Stupid</a>.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-Evans2-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> 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.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a>The company's website states that:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">the group offers 'comprehensive surveillance and counter-surveillance service, and operates experienced in-house teams able to respond and be in place at a moment's notice. Services include specialist human surveillance as well as electronic measures.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The Inkerman Group utilises legal, ethical and wholly necessary covert surveillance techniques to detect and identify a crime or establish innocence. Services we offer include: Covert surveillance, Installation of covert video / audio equipment, Technical Surveillance Counter Measures / electronic sweeps <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Our highly qualified and experienced in-house teams have specialist knowledge across a wide range of issues including fraud, business traveller safety, event security, terrorism, pandemic, kidnap, extortion and all types of protest and extremism. <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;">Transferable skills and alliances: police and private security industry</h2>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".<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-Evans2-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a> See the Powerbase overview of <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Private_security_industry_and_the_police:revolving_door" title="Private security industry and the police: revolving door" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">the revolving door between the private security industry and the police</a>.<h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">Affiliations</h2><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">People</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lord <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Peter_Imbert" title="Peter Imbert" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Peter Imbert</a>, a former <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Met" title="Met" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Met</a> commissioner. He was Chairman of <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Capital_Eye&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Capital Eye (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Capital Eye</a> Ltd, a security consultancy now wholly owned by the Inkerman Group, for which he acts as a consultant.<a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">Former consultants/staff</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/John_Holmes(ex-SAS)" title="John Holmes (ex-SAS)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Holmes (ex-SAS)</a></li></ul><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">Clients</h2>The client base includes multinational corporations, companies, governments and private individuals for which the company provides the full range of security and intelligence services.<h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19.2000007629395px; background: none;">Contact</h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Address:</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Inkerman House</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">3-4 Elwick Road</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Ashford</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Kent TN23 1PF</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">United Kingdom</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Website:<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.inkerman.com/gb/home" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.inkerman.com/gb/home</a></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Twitter at @inkermangroup</dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Blog <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://blog.inkerman.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://blog.inkerman.com/</a></dd></dl><h3 style="color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto; font-size: 16.8959999084473px; background: none;">Notes</h3><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-Evans2-0" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-Evans2_0-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.0</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-Evans2_0-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1</a> <a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-Evans2_0-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.2</a> Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/14/environmental-activists-protest-energy-companies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks</a>, The Guardian 14 February 2011</li><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/peter-imbert/26778" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Lord Imbert</a>, www.parliament.co.uk, 5 January 2011</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> Inkerman Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inkerman.com/gb/the-company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The Company</a>, company website, acc 5 January 2010</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> Matilda Gifford <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/26/protest-surveillance" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Why spy on peaceful protesters?</a> The Guardian, 26/04/09, accessed 17/01/11</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> Inkerman Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inkerman.com/gb/investigation/surveillance" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Surveillance</a>, company website, acc 5 January 2010</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> Inkerman Group, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inkerman.com/gb/intelligence/risk-assessments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Risk Assessments</a>, acc 5 January 2012</li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Inkerman_Group#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/peter-imbert/26778" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Lord Imbert</a>, www.parliament.co.uk, 5 January 2011</li></ol>]</div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://powerbase.info/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; 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Chances are, you have never heard of the Inkerman Group. I certainly hadn’t, until I began researching the web of faceless “risk mitigation” companies that help corporations identify threats to their profits.

These companies produce briefing documents that identify business “threats,” including special interest groups, key activists, and legislation. It is a niche industry built upon fear: the business of risk mitigation depends upon the identification of a constant stream of threats. Corporations commission briefing documents which identify (or create) threats to corporate interests, which leads corporations spending money addressing these threats, which leads to more reports… you get the idea.

This financial motivation to identify threats results in some interesting reports. For instance, I previously wrote about the Society of Toxicology commissioning a “threat analysis” that included such detailed information as <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/inkerman-report-stickers-on-suvs-are-eco-terrorism/571/Corporations%20Tracking%20Who%20Activists%20Are%20Dating" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">who animal rights activists are dating</a>.

It is impossible to know the true scope of these reports, and the impact they have had on the broader political climate of the <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/green-scare" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Green Scare</a>. It is fair to say, though, that for many corporate executives, these think tank documents may be the only exposure they have had to the history, motivation and tactics of the animal rights and environmental movements. They are a critical component of broader efforts to label activists (the “threats”) as “terrorists.”

One such report is by the <a href="http://www.inkerman.com/index" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Inkerman Group</a>, called <a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/wp-content/Images/inkerman_report_ecoterror.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">“The War on ‘Eco-Terror’: An analysis of the use of anti-terrorism legislation on activist movements in the UK & US.” </a>It was sent to me with the request that I not identify the commissioner of the report. (The report, from 2007, is marked “confidential” and does not show up in a search of the Inkerman website, but a Google search of the volume number returns a <a href="http://www.inkerman.com/static/files/1197479765-theinkermanmonitorecoterror.pdf" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">back-end link to the source document</a>on the Inkerman server. Good thing Inkerman is not a security firm, I guess.)

<a href="http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/wp-content/Images/changing_the_climate_bumper_sticker.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/2788d739-56ee-5819-aeb2-4650aff3ff3c.jpg"/></a>Like many other risk analyses, the Inkerman report is hilariously bad at times. The authors of the report appear to either be quite clueless about the true nature of the radical environmental movement, or quite malicious in their attempts to label mainstream, non-violent tactics as “terrorism.”

For instance, its timeline of “eco-terrorism” begins with the formation of the Sierra Club in 1892, and the formation of the Humane Society of the United States in 1954.

It goes on to identify key developments in the radical environmental movement, including… stickers.

Towards the end of 2000, a new form of eco-terrorism emerged in the US against Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Activists, some reportedly part of the ELF, decided to demonstrate against the environmentally-unfriendly vehicles by placing homemade stickers on them. These ‘Mad Taggers’, as they became known, used to sticker the cars in question, chosen at random with messages such as “I’m Changing the Climate. Ask Me How”, “Bin Laden Used Your Gas Money”, “If You Love America, Get Rid of Your SUV” and “I Don’t Care About the Air”.

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However, despite these claims and despite the financial interests involved in this report, the authors do not side in favor of more “eco-terror” legislation.

The introduction of new anti-terror laws seems only to be further complicating the definition of terrorism and what constitutes it, rather than clarifying it. This inherently implies that the Government is still struggling with legally defining the term ‘eco-terrorism’.

In today’s terror climate, the authorities’ fear that terrorist individuals and organisations may ‘slip through the net’ has justified the use of wide-ranging legislation against activists. Many times, actions of ‘eco- terrorists’ are perpetrated to induce fear, and this should rightly be clamped down upon and prosecuted. However, where peaceful protest such as the Camp for Climate Action 2007 intends not to disrupt or threaten human security, the threat alone of anti-terrorist legislation being used against protest is extreme. The issue lies in the blurring of lines between those extremists willing to carry out eco-tage, and those looking to undertake peaceful protest, which should be encouraged in a democracy. This is especially problematic where the two kinds of protests exist side by side at a demonstration, or within groups.

In contrast with the US, which declares eco-terrorism to be the most serious form of domestic terrorism today, the UK must respect the fine lines between democratic voice, illegal activity, terrorism and scare- mongering. [Emphasis added]

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Unfortunately, corporations in the United States have not gotten the memo.

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