thirdcrank wrote:Flinders wrote:It seems to me that it is high time the CTC approached the police officially and got some guidance. ...
Even I find the idea of approaching the police for guidance over this a bit strange.
I've been trying - especially in the other thread I started - to get some sort of measure about how often this type of thing happens and the number of cases quoted seems small; nobody else has reported being physically stopped by the police, rather than signalled to stop, so that they might be given road safety advice or whatever.
Quite a lot of advice has been given in this thread to the OP; people are free to make up their own mind about which advice they follow, of course, but some choices must surely affect the outcome. eg If medical evidence is withheld in an allegation of assault, it's unlikely to go very far.
It isn't as strange as all that, I hope.
What I'd be asking for was clarification of the law. What can you be stopped for? What may an officer ask you to do? What can they demand you do? What information are you obliged to provide (ID etc.)? What paperwork do they have to give to you? I don't know. But I would hope that the police could tell the CTC. And then they could tell us.