[jambutty]

If they do not have a record of the motorists’ fingerprints how will taking them at the roadside ID them? Will it also include any passengers? What will happen to the fingerprints afterwards?

I was under the impression that fingerprints are not taken until AFTER a person has been ARRESTED and then only AFTER they have been CHARGED.

The police can now issue ‘on the spot’ fines for unsocial or drunken behaviour. How long before the fingerprinting will apply to people on the street?

The police can now clock a vehicle and check to see if it is has Road Tax, Insurance, MOT if applicable and also the driver has a legitimate license. If it hasn’t got any one of those the car will be impounded and then crushed, as I understand, it after 7 days. But mistakes can happen as was clearly demonstrated during a TV programme a few days ago when a woman was stopped and the check revealed that she didn’t have insurance. She did have but didn’t have the insurance certificate with her. She was fortunate in that the police allowed her to ring her sister to get the insurance certificate and bring it to the ‘scene of the crime’. She was also fortunate that her sister arrived just as the tow truck was preparing to load the car onto the loader. She and the police parted company, but what a complete waste of police time, not forgetting the unfortunate woman’s time. Let’s not forget the tow truck. The owner would require paying for the wasted trip.

However if the woman had not been able to produce the required insurance certificate, her car would have been impounded and she would have been left on the road to make her own way home. She was also fortunate that this incident happened during daylight hours, but what if it had happened during the dark hours?

Whatever happened to the procedure where a motorist had 7 days to produce the required documents if the motorist was not carrying them at the time of the stopping by police?

This government with the aid of the police are going to get us all tagged and labelled by hook or by crook. So if the ID cards don’t do it this fingerprinting scheme will.

Someone please remind me that we are not galloping down the “Police State” road.

Come in Judge Dredd, your time is coming.