UFFC Annual Rally

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The United Families & Friends Campaign is a coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who are killed in secure psychiatric hospitals.

* Annual Rally 2011 Report *

took place on Saturday 29th October 2011 – 12.30pm
Assembled: South side of Nelsons Column, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
Nearest tube: Charing Cross

See the list – Deaths in Custody 1969-2011

www.uffc-campaigncentral.net

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Key Demands:

Deaths in police custody must be investigated by a body that is genuinely independent of the police, unlike the recently established ‘Independent’ Police Complaints Commission.’

Prison deaths must be subject to a system of properly funded investigation that is completely independent of the Prison Service.

Officers involved in custody deaths be suspended until investigations are completed.

Prosecutions of officers should automatically follow ‘unlawful killing’ verdicts at inquests.

Officers responsible for deaths should face criminal charges, even if retired.

Police forces are made accountable to the communities that they serve.

Legal Aid and full disclosure of information be made to the relatives of the victims.

Rally & Procession – Oct 2011 >

Once again, this year, like every year hundreds gathered for the annual march against deaths in police custody in Britain. Most of those here are family members who say they have lost loved ones at the hands of the police. Like the family of Sean Riggs who died on 21 August 2008. A 40-year old musician, he was arrested in the street by four officers and taken to a nearby police station.

UFFC Gathering – Oct 2010 >

The United Family and Friends Campaign (UFFC) staged a protest march from Trafalgar Square to Downing St today. They are brought together by a common bond of allegedly having had a friend or family member die in police custody. London, UK on 30th October 2010.

UFFC Gathering – Oct 2009 >

Families of those that have died in police, prison and psychiatric custody held their Annual Remembrance Procession on Saturday 31st October 2009. Although numbers were small as there was no official organising of this, the 11th year of the march,families that attended were determined to continue.

Rally & Procession – Oct 2008 >

The Annual United Families & Friends Campaign commemorating 10 years of struggle! Hundreds of people have died in custody in Britain over the last 30+ years. A disproportionate number of these were African-Caribbean men.

Rally & Procession – Oct 2006 >

Over 200 people turned up at the annual London event to remember and demand justice for those who have been killed in police custody, prisons and mental health institutions.

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“The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed themselves“