Re: Drugs operation on city bound trains

On Sat, 3 May 2008 13:33:25 +0100, Les Invalides <Les@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>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.
>
>snip
>>
>>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.
>
>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.


Hear Hear .I completely agree .