CSBC
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Mark101
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Reged: 15/03/2007
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Loc: Lincolnshire
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So having access to a police car registration number is a security risk is it ? lol
Okay Portsmouth photographers, get snapping the number plates of police cars in Portsmouth and post them on this high risk web site for all those terrorist to view.
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sey
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omg, it goes from sad/silly to pathetic.
not only do the two cops in question use their police terror/intimidation tactics on someone they believed was trying to get them into trouble for parking at the bus stop, but the, supposedly intelligent, police spokeswoman tries to justify it by the incredibly childish/stupid statement that who knows what use could be made of an image of the number plate of a highly visible marked blue-light flashing police car.
where will the absurdity end.
must hand it to the british police though, they stand behind each other through thick and thin, no matter how ridiculous they make themselves. no wonder the public has no faith in them.
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sey
"sometimes a brain is more important than a fancy camera" - Philip Greenspun
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
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I despair, I really do. 
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bench_ubbster
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Loc: Cambridgeshire, UK
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"I am the law" 
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Bench or No Bench
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Fen
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Too right... Where is the Judge Goldfish?
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Photocracy
The Great Pretender
Reged: 18/11/2006
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Loc: Sunny South Coast
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This is a perfect example of the Police using terrorist legislation as an enabling law, allowing them to do whatever, and behave however they like with impunity. It is a predictable and extremely serious development.
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Rob
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
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Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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The police seem to have an increasingly US and THEM mentality.............trouble is the seem to have forgotten that THEY are there to serve US............
Perhaps they need a little reminder of just who it is that ultimately pays their wages......
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN 
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Wich Tyler
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Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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I always try to see both sides of an argument. Try as I might, I can only see one side to this one. Tossers.
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beejaybee
Marvin
Reged: 18/07/2007
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Loc: Really Here In Name Only
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So having access to a police car registration number is a security risk is it ? lol
I know of one student who was thrown in jail (in Northern Ireland, 1973) for being in posession of a list of car registration numbers, which he'd been noting down as (he claims) he felt he was being "followed around" by them. Turned out that the list was of the plates of unmarked police cars. The guy was definitely of Republican persuasion but I very much doubt he was an active terrorist.
When this sort of heavy handed "policing" is allowed to occur, perhaps it's no wonder that some people do side with terrorists, whatever political "cause" the terrorists claim to represent.
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sey
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Reged: 22/12/2004
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I always try to see both sides of an argument. Try as I might, I can only see one side to this one. Tossers.
phew! 
btw, the 'bright side' to this story is that the police at last realize that there are other picture-taking implements besides 'professional' dslrs and long lenses. 
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sey
"sometimes a brain is more important than a fancy camera" - Philip Greenspun
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
Posts: 2334
Loc: Nottingham
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Is David now in the national DNA database?
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Dorset123
newbie
Reged: 25/01/2006
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Its a pity that the Police dont put as much effort into catching real crooks. Or is that too much trouble ?
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TheFatControlleR
L'éminence Grise, Devil's Advocate & AP Fanboy!
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Its a pity that the Police dont put as much effort into catching real crooks. Or is that too much trouble ?
It's a man-hours:crime stats ratio thing... 
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TheFatControlleR
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Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse...
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