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From reading that article, "Pride in Protest" don't want any police there at all, in uniform or plain clothes. That position at the very least is consistent. But it seems the board are sort of half in and half out by letting them attend in plain clothes, but then the cops are also presumably turning up in uniform to maintain law and order.
You can't have your cake and eat it is my view. If you want to ban police outright no matter their dress, well ok I think that's shitty and very hard to police pardon the pun, but as I say it's consistent. But it seems silly to me to say, we don't like you and don't want you to march, but also we are happy take from you something that suits us, and it smacks of hypocrisy.