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Police Behaviour
by antlady69 @ 2008-04-09 - 06:05:52

In this recent BBC article, a BBC reporter was mistaken for a terrorist and restrained by police.

Must be a horrible situation for an upright, perfectly innocent member of the public who only wants to do his job. I have no idea how I would feel in such a situation.

BUT: imagine it HAD been a terrorist wearing a bomb, and the police had NOT reacted.

There is no way that the police have enough time in this type of situation to gather intelligence (i.e. background info) on the person in question, as the reporter requested.

Although this greatly inconveniences innocent people (at the moment Arab looking), I personally still prefer the police react quickly and restrain an innocent person, than react too late (or not at all) and let a terrorist blow up other innocent people.

What's your take on this?

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notanotherbloggernotanotherblogger [Member]
2008-04-09 @ 11:23

The police are in a no-win situation. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
It's a different world we live in today, but is there really danger lurking around every corner?
We have to trust our security forces to do the right thing.

tekarukitetekarukite [Member]
2008-04-23 @ 07:11

Remember that the police forces are not the secret services or the military so for them to think this or anyone would result in such actions.

neonmeatdreamsneonmeatdreams [Member]
2008-05-28 @ 17:29

I personally have no problem with police stopping whoever they want if they have reasonable suspicion(whatever that may be!). I feel what is important is how the detained person is treated, after all we are meant to innocent until proven guilty, and the new Police powers seem to be reveresing this.
Also police using anti-terrorism legislation to stop and search protesters, journalists and youths on the street who they think might be on drugs etc is not the correct use of the power, it seems to me they are using it for a wide range of things rather than just the purpose it was created for.

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