Why do people, deny they have anything they shouldn’t have when we ask them, when they know they are about to be searched? It’s obvious we are going to find it, so why not save the bother and just tell the truth? Friday night, pissing down, windy we get a call to look out for a certain van reported by a mop for acting suspiciously in an area known for drugs deals. Like most of these calls we kept an eye out not really thinking we would see it. The first thing I knew about it was when my head hit the side window as Inspector X threw the van around 360 degrees as he had spotted a vehicles which as we say ‘fitted the description’, we followed it for a while and then gave it a tug. Inside where two very fidgety looking bodies in local authority uniforms, as sit was a council van. While Inspector X talked to them I noticed one of them smartly pull his huge hairy hand from between the car seats.
We got them to the side of the road and asked them did they have anything they shouldn’t have..
”no not us guv” etc.
we gave them several chances to tell s whet they had. A regular unit arrived to assist us and as we searched driver and passenger they searched the van, lo and behold three bags of ‘herbal remedy’. We where all for dragging them off to custody, seizing the van, informing the council, etc.etc. But before we could do so the regular officers said we should issue a cannabis warning……ho hum… so a cannabis warning it was.
They guy we took into our car was more worried about his wife finding out than anything else and kept apologising for lieing to us.
Back at the station, this simple warning translated into about two hours of form filling and report writing…in effect taking two units of the streets who could have been doing something useful, instead of filling box files with dead trees.
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