British Knife Laws

[Geordie_Rob]

Does "being searched" happen to you often?

I am 63 and have never been stopped and searched in my life.

Of course I might just be very innocent and unassuming in appearance. The retired professor look allows one some lattitude.

There are times when I have gone through checkpoints at the airport or government buildings but I anticipated that and left the guns, knives and tomahawks in the vehicle.

I believe I will rethink this effort and make a nice nonlocking folder of the same size and just avoid the entire problem as much as possible.

The police are legally allowed to stop & search anyone at anytime if they "suspect terrorism". This covers the person & a vehicle. Whenever I get stopped by the police (happens regularly due to me being a young guy - 30 - driving to work at 4am) & the copper seems to be "thorough", I tell them what I have. Every time except the time it was taken off me, they seem to have appreciated my honesty & being upfront with them.

If you look at it from a coppers point of view, they don't want to be arresting people who are going to be released without charge. Whilst there are some absolute arses in a police uniform, 9 times out of 10 they're decent if you stay calm & remember they're humans too.