On Thu, 15 May 2008 07:50:25 +0000, Mike_B wrote:
> The police tried this a year or 2 ago at Blackpool rail station. They set
> up a metal detector and search point for people getting off the train and
> leaving the station. Fortunately, some of those on the train had a little
> more nouse about them and told the police to shove it. As they had no
> power to enforce their searches or to enforce people's travel through a
> metal detector, they had to give it up.
They use drug sniffer dogs at some stations. You don't get the option to
refuse. When the police drug swab people entering pubs or clubs, if
someone refuses to be tested, or doesn't go in when they see the police
and machine, they take this as evidence of guilt and search the refusniks.
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Phil Stovell, Hampshire, UK
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