Welcome. We may appear unfriendly, but that's mostly because we're really really oppressed here (as motorists in Blair's Britain I mean), When motoring sections of the newspapers are subjected to 'politically correct' censorship that limits motoring reviews to 4 door family saloons and the 'scamera' partnerships are only concerned with sending us photos of how FAST we are driving rather than how WELL we are driving; we have a lot of unresolved anger management issues.
I'm only joking of course - we're all perfectly level headed here, just stick around and see our good natured joshing!
As you are a newbie poster to newsgroups can I just point out that it is (generally considered) good practise NOT to 'top post', i.e. posting your response on top of the post to which you are responding.
Is this normal procedure 788Yes I am only too aware of our current political climate but instead of unpleasant womaning about it on Usenet I fought hard and long during the last mayoral & general elections by being a...
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it puts things out of sequence and makes it hard to follow
But apart from that
Yes - it sounds very odd. If you are don't expect to have problems from the police in the future it might be worth writing a letter to the Chief Constable asking a, if this is approved procedure and for how long it as been in effect? b, why a photo is necessary and how it will be used and stored ? c, why (if it is properly approved etc) the officers are not equipped with better equipment than a disposable camera?
Was it a policeman or was it a 'Community Support Officer' who took the photo?
