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Out of interest, who has been stopped or searched by the police?
I was stopped and had my bag searched at Victoria Station a few days after the London 7/7 bombings. So I understand it as they were stopping a lot of people carrying backpacks, I'm guessing that there presence there was for reassurance to the travelling public more than anything. I was given a bit of a paper as a record of the stop, which recorded the reason for the stop as "terrorism"! I was actually working a Kings Cross station at the time of the bombings (well in a portacabin next door building the new underground station and was evacuated from the area following the bombing).
Another time I was stopped in my car. Driving around midnight. I passed a police car who had just stopped another driver. I slowly passed them, then drove on. I noticed that it was now following me and I also knew that there was a speed camera up ahead, so I drove at bang on the speed limit or maybe 29 in a 30 zone.
They pulled me over and first word they said to me were "driving a bit slowly there weren't you sir?". I mean WTF.