In the magazine this month, it states that a person is under no obligation to delete the images on or hand over a memory card if asked to by the Old Bill... Surely this would apply to film as well (and yes, I know you can't delete images from film). So who's right? The police or the magazine? The magazine suggests the images contained on a card could prove your innocence (assuming you weren't up to anything you shouldn't have been).

Well at least we know why the Police aren't getting their payrise... They don't bloody deserve it when they're pulling stunts like this!

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I think its that they cannot destroy the film or images. However if they arrest you it can be taken as evidence.

 

However It didnt state that he was arrested.

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PC Ploddkins said " The horizons were squiffy and I don't think he caught my best side as we arrested him

 

" src="/emoticons/emotion-2.gif">  Brill!  PC correctness goes barking!

 

 

 

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COPPER......."Hello, hello, hello.  Wot's goin' on 'ere then? Takin' pictures of that there said person in a covert manner are we?  I'm afraid it's my sworn duty as a conscientious flatfoot to have to arrest you on the spot and confiscate your film,sir.  Anything you say will be taken down and used in evidence".

PHOTOGRAPHER...."Dirty knickers".

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    Hello from Windy Sheffy.

Hmm,,,,Police State,Brown and the Labour Party,Police incompetence,,ermm,,,PUBLIC complained,so the boys in blue HAVE  to act,no complaint,no police action.
Feel sorry for the bloke concerned,but what harm was actualy done ?

bill stewardson

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Funny how they seem to have time to investigate things like this but when phoned by someone beseiged by anti social louts etc. they're too busy........priorities sometimes seem wrong somehow.......

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.....and the words Brown incompetence and Labour Party seem to go perfectly well together ....don't they?

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They certainly do, Sue.  As do a few other fine expletives that get dubbed with a star rating on this site: being unprintable as they are of course.  What harm has it done, Bill?  It has put another nail in the coffin of relative freedom.  This country is now only fit for thieves and vagabonds.  We've seen how our heros have been treated.  And now we have seen how an innocent amateur photographer has been treated.  In truth, we are all being treated like thieves and vagabonds these days and are suspect terroists or perverts if we enjoy photography for a hobby. 

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    Hello from windy Sheffy
Ive never been treated a s a thief,vagabond or anything like that due to my hobby.
Not sure if its the fault of the current government if a member of the public makes a complaint to the Police,unless ofcourse,like the vast majority of the public,he/she voted Labour.
Nail in the coffin of relative freedom,,,,errrm,the Police acting on a complaint sort of suggests to me that Freedom is alive and well.

bill stewardson

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error alert...the majority of the public did not vote Labour ...I think it was around 25-28% of the electorate...the apathy party got most votes.

Unfortunately under our electoral system this can give a load of incompetents a big parliamentary majority to push their ideas through.....

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>>Stalinism is alive and kicking in the UK thanks to the communist ideals of the Labour party. <<

Frankly, it's hard for me to see how the British Labor party could be more bourgeois than it is.

It would be appropriate to respond in kind with a discussion of the Hitlerism of KeithT and his gang of BUFs, but this kind of hyperbole seems too ridiculous for words.

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    Hello from very windy Sheffy


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bill stewardson

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Didn't a senior home office minister resign last year because he was 'sick of the country being run by the News of the World'? The implication being that govt policy seems to be decided by knee-jerk reactions to whatever stories the popular media were jumping on that week. The media has a lot to answer for....and it results in over-reaction like this...probably because someone thought he might be a terrorist or a pervert.

I'm not sure what the answer is...I'm getting to the stage of apathy with our politicians and councils. The 'Ch 4 Big Brother' watching generation don't seem to be bothered...Has it always been this way or am I getting old?

A personal experience of mine may sum up Police attitudes. Around 19 years ago, local teenage youths were causing a bit of bother, throwing stones at our windows etc. (but not entering my property) The police came round and the advice was 'to give them a clip round the ear and we'll turn a blind eye'. A couple of years ago, I had youths running through my garden, breaking fences and my shed. When I called the police and asked what I could do, they said 'call us'. I told them that the youths would be gone 10 seconds later, so asked if I could detain them and wait for the police to arrive? They said that if I stopped them, even in my own garden, they would ARREST ME....for holding someone against their will.

 

 

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How does the whole 'citizen's arrest' thing work then? Does that still apply or has that one gone down the pan?

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it's against their ooman rights...

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