Old bill in doing their job shocker

The Oracle and other popo forums might disagree with you on that one.

The consensus there is (if memory serves) that such a request would be unenforceable, and that only active obstruction would be an offence.

Meh. It's just something I vaguely remember from studying for promotion. It's a seperate offence to obstruction, which I think is part of the police act or police reform act rather than common law.

Anyways, I was only mentioning it off hand and am keeping out of any serious discussion!