Les Invalides wrote:
> Anton G’sen posted
> >Dr John Watson wrote:
> >
> >> A major operation to stop drug trafficking on East Anglia's rail network
> >> saw police with sniffer dogs checking every passenger who arrived in
> >> Norfolk over two days.
> >
> >As long as they're not causing a problem WRT the rail journey then
> >where's the problem?
>
> For example:
>
> >A major operation to stop drug trafficking on East Anglia's rail
> >network saw police with sniffer dogs checking every passenger who
> >arrived in Norfolk over two days.
>
> I don't like being sniffed by dogs, especially big ones. I don't like
> being examined by uniformed men equipped with handcuffs and clubs, when
> I'm going about my ordinary everyday business in an ordinary everyday
> place where no offence has been complained of or committed. So that's
> two problems for me.
>
> snip
> >
> >PC Andy Cook said: ³We had uniformed and plain clothes officers
> >working with the dogs to detect anybody who had recently been in
> >contact with controlled substances. We also stopped anybody acting
> >suspiciously or trying to avoid the dogs.
>
> I don't like people stopping me when I try to avoid animals that I don't
> like. So that's another problem for me.
>
> snip
> >
> >Anyone detected by the dogs was immediately led to a secure area where
> >they were searched.
>
> And many of these people were innocent and "had simply been in the
> vicinity of somebody smoking cannabis". Being taken to a secure area and
> searched when I am trying to travel somewhere is a *big* problem for me.
> Do I really have to explain why?
>
> But most of all because it's another step down the slippery slope to
> where police can stop and search you for any reason and no reason and
> you have no recourse. A police society.
Well said.
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Alec McKenzie
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