Police officers are prohibited in law from being members of a trade union.
They're usually members of the Police Federation: I couldn't tell you what the actual difference is in real terms between that and a trade union, but legally, it's not classed as one & they don't have the same rights as...
Yes, but they move around, don't they? They don't point in the same direction the entire time, and sod's law, they'd have been pointing the other way at the time this happened, by the looks of it.
Slightly odd that they blurred out the face of the rapist/prowler.
Totally understandable in the case of somebody who hadn't been arrested or charged, but this is someone with a previous rape conviction, who they said at the end was convicted of the burglary & sexual assault offences...and...