From: [j h risoulas] at [aol.com] (JHrisoulas)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: answering questions of state police
Date: 4 Sep 1995 22:39:24 -0400

I have been reading this thread off and on for a while.

I train Police Cadets. I and a friend was stopped by a law enforcement
training officer and a cadet on ride along. The Officer (not the cadet)
asked the same "Are you carrying any weapons?" question of my friend (who
is not a sworn officer) and then asked "do you mind if we search your
car?"  Lucky for me neither the Cadet or the Officer recognised me (which
is a problem as I am quite the memorable fellow). They proceeded to search
the vehicle, but not our persons. Which is very good for me, as I was
adding all this up in my head and I didn't want this "blown" by them
finding my weapon and my ID...


Next day, I called the Cadet involved into my office at the Academy and
asked him what did he think the officer was doing? The answer was
astounding!  Well all I can say is that this no longer occurs in my
department's jurisdiction.   We no longer allow this action and searches
are not allowed to be "fishing expeditions".

I had no idea that this was going on, on a regular basis. Not all of our
officers were doing this, only a "choice few". This has been stopped in
Nevada.

Your servant,


Sgt J.P. Hrisoulas