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0 pointsicc978y ago0 comments

I'm talking about when the police stop you. I live in Belgium and I've seen the oppressive stop and searches the police do on buses. They come on and haul people off.

You are required to have an ID on you at all times. If you don't have an ID on you you've committed an offence.

It makes it very easy for police to find identities of people they question. In the UK you have the privacy that you haven't committed an offence by not having an ID so the police can't detain you. So you can just give a fake address and the police can't do anything.

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brokenmachine8y ago

> So you can just give a fake address and the police can't do anything.

That sounds like a dangerous strategy. Surely lying to police is an offence.

You'd be better off asking what crime you are suspected of committing first, and if there is none, declining to answer.

Of course, police probably wouldn't like that strategy much either.

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