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It echos my previous point that you can insist on your rights all you like - in this case the bloke pointed out that he was under no obligation to give his personal details . . . so the police changed a section 44 into anti social behaviour issue - which forces him - under threat of arrest - to give his personal details.
Like I say, the right to withhold your personal details exists only in the minds of the legislators, activists and newspaper columnists. People can insist that you have certain rights when dealing with a PCSO, police officer, council official, enforcement officer and so on, but effectively you have none, you either give your details, delete photographs, leave the area - or do whatever it is they want - otherwise you leave yourself open to arrest.
The thing I don't fully understand is once these people have been arrested, handcuffed and taken to the cells - then forced to submit to a body search, swabbed for the DNA database and handed over all their personal details - why do the police need to keep them locked up for 8 hours or so ?