Timeline for When is one required to provide one's name and DOB to the police if one wishes to avoid arrest?
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 21:51 | history | edited | David Siegel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:20 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | Anyway, brilliant information thank you mate. | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | other proceedings other than sometimes to avoid them altogether and so to keep a subject their liberty. | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:18 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | It should be noted however that I have it indeed on good authority that in practice it will very rarely if ever have any negative consequences to give false information to police during encounters in the field while it may well in some circumstances save one from a 24 hour (or occasionally longer) stay in the tank... Of course there is some offence in some statute or other somewhere which is easily fulfilled in feeding false information to police. In practice though my understanding is that it is quite rarely ever pursued and quite rarely ever alters or impacts on the course of | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:11 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | Anyway, what is the ostensible central purpose of a stop and account interrogation? | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:09 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | Also followed by "just cause of your accent". I used to fear these due to past, thankfully now resolved lack of clarity on my own but these seem to be fishing exercises to probe into one's immigration status. I usually try to dodge these to make their job as difficult as possible despite no longer having anything personally to fear about it, out of solidarity with those who do and against the awful and savage hostile environment regime. | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 20:08 | comment | added | JosephCorrectEnglishPronouns | What would be a most tactful/smooth/most recommended manner of exercising this right to decline a stop and account? Can you think of anything better than a blunt flippantly indignant "none of your business"? I'm glad to say that I no longer have issues in that regard, but I often get questions like "where are you coming from"? Which seems to be a deliberately ambiguous, calibrated fishing attempt to bait me into dialogue that could fit into many forms of interpretation including in line with present activities and travel aim as described in your answer as stop and account but sometimes it's | |
| Sep 19, 2022 at 18:59 | history | answered | Neil Meyer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |