What is the agenda of the police these days?

I find myself looking at all sorts of stuff on the internet, and whilst on my travels came across this. This sceptr'd isle by SPECTATOR BLOGGER Melanie Phillips.

Last night I was chatting with a friend, a distinguished writer. He told me the following anecdotes. His son had taken his children back to their boarding school after the half-term break and was driving straight back home, around 50 miles away. He had consumed neither drink nor drugs and was driving steadily and carefully while listening to music. He became aware of a car following him closely for most of the way; to his astonishment, when he pulled into his drive the car followed him and out got two police officers. They claimed he had been driving in a lane where he should not have been. He denied this. After some further questioning they then asked: ‘Have you had a domestic?’ (police vernacular for a row with the wife). Upon being answered in the negative, the officers insisted on going into the house and asking the astounded wife whether she and her husband had had a row. Upon being answered again in the negative, they departed and no more was heard.

This was not the only strange recent adventure involving a roadside encounter with the police to disturb my friend’s composure. He was driving his car with his wife in the passenger seat – slowly, he says, as is his wont -- when he was stopped by the police. They told him to get out of his car and get into theirs, which he did. ‘Who is the woman in the passenger seat’? they asked. No explanation was ever forthcoming of why they asked this question nor, indeed, why he had been stopped.

What is happening to the police in Britain?

VOTE BNP AND GET A POLICEFORCE WHICH PROTECTS AND NOT SNOOPS

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