QUOTE(wannabie_drifter @ Feb 2 2009, 10:17 AM) [snapback]1283513426[/snapback]
they do what they want because they know most people don't know there rights. So are bags illegal or just they weren't mod plated?
Do you have any idea what your rights are?????? And what Power the Police Have.. They have every right to do what they did
POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000
19 General power to enter to make inquiries, investigations or serve documents
(1) The purpose of this section is to ensure a police officer performing a function of the police service may enter and stay on a place in circumstances that may otherwise be trespass.
(2) However, this section does not authorise entry to a private place if a provision of this Act or another Act provides for entry in the particular circumstances only under a search warrant or other stated authority.
(3) A police officer may enter a place and stay for a reasonable time on the place to inquire into or investigate a matter.
Examples for subsection (3)–
1 The entry may be to a public area of a place such as a hotel or a nightclub for finding out if an offence is being or has been committed on the place.
2 The entry may be for finding out if a person reasonably suspected of being involved in the commission of an offence is at a place.
3 The entry may be for finding out if a missing person is in the place.
(4) Also, a police officer may enter and stay for a reasonable time on a place to serve a document.
(5) However, if the place contains a dwelling, the only part of the place a police officer may enter without the consent of the occupier is the part of the place that is not a dwelling.
(6) Also, the police officer may only use minimal force to enter the place
54 Power of inquiry into road use contraventions
(1) It is lawful for a police officer to make any reasonably necessary inquiry, investigation, inspection, examination, or test for establishing whether or not an offence against the Road Use Management Act has been committed.
(2) Also, it is lawful for a police officer to arrange for someone else to make any reasonably necessary inspection, examination, or test for establishing whether or not an offence against the Road Use Management Act has been committed