Old bill in doing their job shocker

The point is that there is no longer a concept of simple cooperation with the police. Bureaucracy, targets, commoditisation, among others, have led to a situation where the individual policeman, no matter what his or her motivation, is fettered by forms, and is incapable of exercising discretion.
please read the op again.

One example of where recording details for stop and accounts is a bad thing might be where an entirely innocent individual is stopped twice in one night for doing no more than being slightly too scruffy.

A simple check on the database of Stop and Accounts will then tell the second officer that this is an individual that may require further investigation. Because, of course, the database will not have the context of the first stop. Nor of the second, third and fourth stops.

This may lead to an arrest. Maybe for a Section 5 when the person says "WFT?". Nothing may come of the arrest, and it may be NFA'd within minutes.
i highly doubt that and i have never heard of aanyone being arrested for saying 'wtf', i'm sure it would be followed by 'i've just been stopped twice before and i haven't done anyhing wrong, can you please check'. please read crazyjames' account.

Until they try to obtain a visa to the US, or get a job requiring an enhanced CRB check.

Now I'm sure that there are checks and measures in place to ensure that this type of snafu doesn't happen, but I would rather not put my faith in the system that fucked up to be the one to sort out the fuck up.

Any interaction between individual and state, where the balance of power is in favour of the state, puts the individual at a permanent disadvantage.
have some faith, humanity still exists and stop watching 'enemy of the state'.