"But a spokesperson for police-monitoring network Netpol said that the absence of genuine accountability for police misconduct makes public scrutiny essential.

They said that there is a “supreme irony” in the Met complaining about filming officers, “when its justification for surveillance on communities and political dissent is to argue that ‘if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’.”"

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/police-chiefs-complaints-about-officers-being-filmed-labelled-supreme-irony