@TLiC/Fredz
I doubt it. There's a few coppers who'll take any excuse, but the majority is perfectly sensible. Moreover, the onus will always be on the police to demonstrate that they had a specific reason to intervene. So even if, in the early stages, there are a couple of instances of heavy-handedness, my guess is that the senior officers, advised by their lawyers and the Home Office, will come down hard on over-enthusiastic PCs.

There's a lot of "security" legislation that really is worrying - but I don't think that this falls into that group. I think it behoves us to pick our targets a bit more carefully and to be a bit careful in the claims we make.


Right - pub time, I think. Or a cup of tea. *ponders*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 20:55, Reply)