Re: illegal random breath tests

Ret. wrote:
|| Rob wrote:
||| Ret. wrote:
||||| johannes wrote:
|||||| Alex Heney wrote:
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||||||| On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:14:00 +0000, AlanG <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
||||||| wrote:
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http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2009/12/15/police-stop-and-breath-test-300-drivers-on-huddersfield-road-86081-25390741/
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|||||||| or
|||||||| http://tinyurl.com/yc8stry
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|||||||| 300 people illegally stopped and breath tested. One charged.
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||||||| Do you have the slightest shred of evidence for the word
||||||| "illegally" in there?
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|||||| "Not only will we be breathalysing any motorist who is involved
|||||| in a collision, but we will also be conducting stop check
|||||| operations in various areas of Kirklees."
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||||| Stop check operations are perfectly legal. If a stopped driver
||||| then exhibits signs of having been drinking, he can legally be
||||| breathalysed.
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||| Translation: "The police will contrive any reason they can to do
||| what they like, since no one can stop them - which I fully support".
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|| I certainly support measures that deter drunk driving.

As do I provided they are lawful.

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Rob


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