Can the BiB open your driving licence?

[streaky]

Posted in another thread, but lost in there and worth soliciting correct answer IMHO.

I am under the impression that a police officer has no right to open your paper version driving licence to look for any other information (eg. points) on it, and that's why it's folded the way it is. If I'm right this is prohibited because it could be prejudicial (ie. the same as having previous convictions read out at the start of a trial).

I have had numerous reports in the past (and one on Friday last) from friends and colleagues who have been stopped for a variety of reasons, that their driving licence has been opened up on production when stopped. I have also had reports that it's been opened at a police station following a 'producer'.

All the information needed is available on the cover (if folded correctly), so there is no need to open it.

What's the correct story please?

Streaky

[tonyrec]

No truth whatsoever......Police can open it up as many times as we want to.

[boosted ls1]

Lets hope there's not a tenner in it then! Don't take offence!

[tonyrec]

Lol,i dont come that cheaply....contrary to popular belief.

[Pies]

I never carry the paper bit

[boosted ls1]

tonyrec said:

Lol,i dont come that cheaply....contrary to popular belief.

Well I can't afford a 50 so had better be more careful! Traffic cops are the best of the bunch if you ask me and what big powers of descretion

[bassfiend]

tonyrec said:

Lol,i dont come that cheaply....contrary to popular belief.

I *WAS* going to make the almost obligatory double-entendre comment and then realised that I pass through Tony's "patch" on occasion...

... maybe not then.

Phil

[FourWheelDrift]

streaky said:

I am under the impression that a police officer has no right to open your paper version driving licence to look for any other information (eg. points) on it, and that's why it's folded the way it is.

You should have posted this in the "Origami forum"