Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger cautioned by police... for using tripod on Hampstead Heath

 
Police caution: Alan Rusbridger on Hampstead Heath with the police officer (Picture: Instagram/ARusbridger)
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Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has received a police caution - for using a tripod on Hampstead Heath.

Rusbridger, who was on a photoshoot with a staff photographer, had inadvertently taken a picture of a jogger on his iPhone as he captured a panoramic photograph.

The man complained angrily and called police, who dismissed the complaint but said the Guardian’s use of a tripod was forbidden under S11 of LCC bylaws of 1932, banning any “photographic stand apparatus”.

Rusbridger, who has faced threats of arrest for handling top secret intelligence documents exposing the inner workings of the US and UK’s secret services, said: “Kudos to Officer Davies. A great many cops in London have spent the past few years trying, without success, to nick an editor. I hope his mates bought him a round.”

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