(15 Dec 2014, 10:08 am)ArrivaNE_7522 wrote A police officer was asking me why I was taking photos of buses from the fence at Ashington bus depot.
Here's some tips...
When approached by a police officer, and they ask why you are taking photos of the buses, say that you have an interest with buses.
If you look 12-15 they will ask if you are alone (the police didn't take the alone part any further).
Give them your name and address (they might ask for a parents telephone number)
They will do a check through the police systems.
When all the information adds up and is fine they will then leave.
At no point they asked to look at my photos, if they did, I would have told them to come to my house with a warrant to look at my photos. (Very unlikely)
That just gives the OB a reason to hassle, if you have nothing to hide, show your photos...Not sure if it is still used much, but when I was younger I was forever cocky with the law and they would find ways ti make life difficult to make life difficult for me...
In one day back in the early 00's I was subjected to 3 section 60 searches in Durham in one night out, end of the day, I find if you are rather co-operative with the police and dont give them a reason to hassle you any more than they feel they may want to, things will be fine, so yeah, we may not be legally required to show our photos, but is it really worth the hassle...
One thing I learnt about 10 years ago, the police do not like there photos taken, coming home from Durham Miners Gala one year, Murton had a Police Escort from the Racecourse, we looked like a group of football fans being escorted away from a match, we were flanked by OB on either side with EG officers taking pictures of us, when we got back to near the Market Place, I spotted an EG taking a picture of me from the top of Leazes Underpass, I turned my camera on them, when the photo was taken, I seen one big bastard pointing at and running towards me, I jumped on the first coach in line and it pulled away before PC Steroid(he was huge) could get a hold of me
