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“Innocent Until Proven Guilty” or “If You Have Nothing To Hide, You Have Nothing To Fear”

There was a major Police operation at Brighton station on Friday, with more than a dozen officers funnelling people toward a metal detector. I sent Sussex Police the following email:

I would be grateful if you could provide the following information:

1. Under what legislation were police officers compelling people to walk through the metal detectors?

2. Were people issued with forms informing them of the reason for the search, the outcome of the search and the names of the officers involved?

3. If there was no compulsion to go through the metal detectors, were members of the public informed of this prior to agreeing to the search? If not, why not?

4. If there was no compulsion to be searched, can you clarify the following sentence take from a report in the Argus newspaper? "Plain clothes police officers made sure people who tried to avoid the scans were checked."

5. Under what legislation were plain clothes police entitled to monitor members of the public and compel them to undergo a search? Did these officers identify themselves to the people involved?

6. Notices at the station told members of the public that this was an operation to reduce the number of knives and other weapons. Why, then, were sniffer dogs deployed?

7. If sniffer dogs were deployed to detect drugs, why were the notices displayed to the public about the operation incorrect and misleading?

What Would Jesus Do?

Two sweet old ladies got on the train this morning and sat near me. I warmed to the one next to me when she bought a cup of coffee from the trolley to “oil the wheels”, but specified decaf.

They chatted away to each other, discussing their work in the church, their friendship with the bishop and their dislike of medical science*. Clearly two God-fearing, church-going, upstanding members of the community.

Then the ticket man came along the carriage.

It turns out that the two pillars of the community were knowingly travelling on a peak-time train with invalid off-peak tickets. Thou shalt not steal?

What Would Jesus Do?

I think he’d own up to his mistake, apologise and pay the difference.

The two old ladies, however, decided the Christian thing to do would be to lie and say that “the times of the train had changed”.

As it was, the ticket man barely glanced at their tickets. Praise the Lord!

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