Beat Officers Prevent Terror Attack Stopping Suspicious Tourist
London – Further evidence that behavioral profiling does work. A terrorist attack on London was averted because two beat patrol officers stopped a man who was acting suspiciously while filming with a mobile phone, police claimed yesterday.The Algerian man said that he was a tourist, but when his phone was examined it yielded 90 minutes of footage of stations, security cameras and shopping centers.
Police took the unprecedented step of releasing the “hostile reconnaissance” video to counter criticism that they are using anti-terrorism powers to question tourists and photographers. “I’d much rather justify what we did do in stopping someone than having to justify why we didn’t do it against the backdrop of a burning building and a terrorist atrocity,” Detective Superintendent Chris Greany, of City of London Police, said.
He admitted that his officers did “get it wrong sometimes” but said that they were acting in the public interest in stopping people. He added: “We don’t just stop people for a laugh we’re trying to make London safer.
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Awesome job for the Brits. Unfortunately in our country, our liberal Supreme Court judges have ruled that to protect terrorist’s rights (even though they are not US citizens) law enforcement has to get a search warrant before they can check the contents of cell phones. So much for protecting the rights of law abiding potential victims.