Grampian Police were attacked last night for turning a video camera on delegates arriving for a G8 Alternatives meeting at Aberdeen University. Aamer Anwar, a human rights lawyer and spokesman for the group, described the incident as "a serious breach of their human rights" and will be making an official complaint. Members of the group were arriving for one of their fortnightly meetings at the university when they spotted three police officers with a video camera filming their arrival. Barry Reid and a friend were on their way to the meeting shortly before 7pm when they approached the officers. After initially being ignored the 23-year-old Aberdeen College music student asked one of the officers why they were filming. He said: "I remember his exact words, he said, 'we are compiling evidence'. I turned to the policeman who was holding the camera and he filmed me up and down. It's an invasion of privacy." He added: "We have nothing to hide. If they wanted to send a representative to one of our meetings and find out what we are talking about that would be fine. But to film us without our permission, that's not democracy is it?" Penny Howard, one of the organisers of G8 Alternatives, said that police officers spent more than an hour outside the meeting. Members of Grampian Senior Citizens' Forum, university and college students along with teachers made up the 15-strong meeting. Ms Howard said: "It was quite ridiculous, we were all very surprised when we saw them. We were at the meeting to make flyers, posters, banners and plan buses for the G8 protests next month, that is all. "There must be a better use of police resources than having three policemen hanging outside our meetings all night." Aamer Anwar said it was the first time the police had filmed outside of any of the group's meetings. He added that the group plan to make a complaint against the senior police officer who ordered the police action. "I think it's completely unacceptable and an abuse of human rights. "I don't know what the police are playing at - at a time when people from all around the world are being encouraged to come to Scotland and protest ahead of the G8 summit at Gleneagles. "Would they have behaved in the same way if a member of the church was there or Bob Geldof? I want to know where this information is being stored, who by, and for what purpose?" A police spokesman said: "Grampian Police deployed three uniformed officers at a public meeting held by G8 Alternatives. "The deployment was not in relation to a complaint or public order issue but forms part of the ongoing policing effort in preparation for the G8 summit. "Grampian Police are committed to ensuring that all members of the local community are free to protest or demonstrate provided it is done in a safe and lawful manner."