Timeline for How to legally deal with British police officers?
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| Apr 19, 2022 at 15:55 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 17:03 | comment | added | phoog | @dollarbill in particular, a false tip that you have an illegal weapon is reasonable grounds to stop and search you as long as the police have no reason to think that it's false. You have to keep in mind that the reasonableness of police actions has to be judged by the information available to the police. During the stop you have no access to that information, and even if you did there's no judge available to rule that the police lack reasonable grounds. All you can do is try to persuade them, but they don't have to listen to you and probably won't. The same is true in the US. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 9:05 | comment | added | phoog | @dollarbill When the police accost you, you have no way of knowing whether their suspicion is reasonable. You can't make them change their behavior during the incident, nor should you try. You may be able to hold them to account subsequently. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 3:08 | comment | added | dollar bill | I'm more concerned of the idea 'suspicion', likely not as severe as a gun but a knife, screw-driver or a tool to be considered a weapon. My understanding was to learn how to respond if a fake stop & search occurred without evidence but based on a fake conspirator call. i.e. video of first-amendment journos at gun-pointa based on a fake conspiracy call that they had a weapon, but were carrying cameras. From what I've read my rights are pretty slim here in the UK to not be compliant with the officers request. | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 23:10 | comment | added | gnasher729 | You said "if I'm under suspicion of carrying a weapon" - if that weapon is a gun, I told you what happened. You will be safe unless you actually carry a gun (highly illegal) AND behave very stupid. If that suspicion was justified (even if incorrect), nothing you can do. What makes you think anything like this could happen to you? | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 17:54 | comment | added | dollar bill | That's an overwhelming circumstance that you mention. Besides the politics around George Floyds death, what are the simpler measures on my individual rights as a UK citizen against police under claims to investigate their procedure to handle me on their suspicion? Where do I file these complaints to and what reason - grounds of confirmation must I have to forward the complaint with effect and reduce bias? | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 17:44 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |