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It looks like it's true. > You can also be searched if the police have reasonable grounds to suspect you have: > illegal drugs Use a dog. Pretend it's reas

It looks like it's true. > You can also be searched if the police have reasonable grounds to suspect you have: > illegal drugs Use a dog. Pretend it's reasonable grounds. > In all situations, you can’t be searched just because of how you look or who you are, as this is discrimination. Yes it is and that's how you use a dog to discriminate and maintain the legal fiction.

stordoff 7y ago
There are only about 2,000 police dogs in the UK (1,900[1] / 2,500[2]) (vs. _about_ 50,000 in the US [3] - about five times more per capita). It seems unlikely they are being used for routine traffic stops. Furthermore, reasonable grounds is a low bar. From the code of conduct in the linked document (Scots law, but the whole UK is similar)[4]: > Reasonable suspicion may also exist without specific information or intelligence and on the basis of the behaviour of a person. For example, if a constable encounters someone on the street who is obviously trying to hide something, the constable may (depending on the other surrounding circumstances) base such suspicion on the fact that this kind of behaviour is often linked to stolen or prohibited articles being carried A police dog is frankly overkill for establishing reasonable grounds. [1] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-14/debates/D856FCAE-9EF4-49CF-99A0-AF5F379BEF94/PoliceDogsAndHorses https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-14/debates/D85... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_dog#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_dog#United_Kingdom [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/20/the-surprising-reason-more-police-dogs-are-dying-in-the-line-of-duty/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/20/the-s... [4] https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00512924.pdf https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00512924.pdf

stordoff 7y ago

There are only about 2,000 police dogs in the UK (1,900[1] / 2,500[2]) (vs. _about_ 50,000 in the US [3] - about five times more per capita). It seems unlikely they are being used for routine traffic stops. Furthermore, reasonable grounds is a low bar. From the code of conduct in the linked document (Scots law, but the whole UK is similar)[4]: > Reasonable suspicion may also exist without specific information or intelligence and on the basis of the behaviour of a person. For example, if a constable encounters someone on the street who is obviously trying to hide something, the constable may (depending on the other surrounding circumstances) base such suspicion on the fact that this kind of behaviour is often linked to stolen or prohibited articles being carried A police dog is frankly overkill for establishing reasonable grounds. [1] https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-14/debates/D856FCAE-9EF4-49CF-99A0-AF5F379BEF94/PoliceDogsAndHorses https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-11-14/debates/D85... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_dog#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_dog#United_Kingdom [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/20/the-surprising-reason-more-police-dogs-are-dying-in-the-line-of-duty/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/20/the-s... [4] https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00512924.pdf https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0051/00512924.pdf