On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Rob Gaylard <[email protected]> wrote: > I am open to correction but as far as I know the police are allowed to > stop and search someone if there are reasonable grounds for suspicion.
Walking along a Lower Main Road at 3am is not reasoanble grounds for anything but a "Good evening Sir how are you?" > i.e. They can't stop and search you for no reason. Exactly - there was absolutely no reason > If the police exceeded their authority David (ONW chair) and Teun (CPF > chair) can and should take this up with them. 'Community policing' is > a two-way street. I suspect in this instance they did not as no search took place - but it took some convincing from my part. I also suspect that if they request to search you and you submit then that is also ok. The problem depends on how they convinced you to submit in the first place. These officers were all fairly pleasant chaps and their was no nastiness involved from either side. There could have been some completely different outcomes. Like just 5 minutes before I had a very nasty interaction with a Metro Police Women because as they cruised through the stop street with out stopping I pointed to the stop street and their car as it cruised along. Just to be clear hear this was finger pointing palm forward indexed finger extended. She gave me a mouthful and when I muttered an expletive to myself NOT AT OR TO HER (she was walking away) she then told me "I like to arrest people like you?" Arrogant and nasty as hell. The police guys were like my best friends compared to that! > I hope Trev reports back on his conversation with Snr. Supt van der > Riel. > I will indeed. I called yesterday afternoon and it seems I woke him up as he was on night shift. I have decided to put the incident in writing - and yes I will do a better job than the 3am after the incident net report (Thanks Mervyn!) and will wait for him to respond. I will have the letter dropped of tomorrow. Trev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
