Re: Drugs operation on city bound trains

Anton Gÿsen <anton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

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>
>PC Andy Cook said: “We 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.

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>
>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.

-- 
Les Invalides