Do shops and Store have the right to stop and search you and your bags you may be carrying?
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I suspect only the police have the right to stop and search, and only if they have reasonable grounds of suspicion.\n\nMaybe you could ask a consumer organisation, or the Citizens Advice Bureau, just to be sure.\n\nIf I saw such a sign in a shop, I'd vote with my feet, and go elsewhere, perhaps writing a polite letter to the manager explaining why.\n\nA while ago, I wanted petrol from a garage; a sign said I had to pay first (before filling up the car).  The inference was I (or any other customer) was not to be trusted.  I went elsewhere.\n\nRemember, without customers, a business will go bust.  If I get treated badly, I tell as many people as I can, so they won't shop there either.  Perhaps a letter to the local newspaper would help matters.\n\nAdverse publicity in the press will hurt these businesses where it matters; in the pocket.
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You may refuse the search. Once you give consent to search, you can repeal it at any time and the Police Officer must stop. The only time in which you have no choice is called search incident to arrest.\n\nIf they do not stop and find something it is not admissible in court. It's called "fruit of the poisonous tree" I hope this helps.  Cop in Maine
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it's not, \n\nIf the ACLU or some real constitutional lawers would step up to the plate and challange it, we could get somewhere.  \n\nand for the guy who said we don't have a right to privacy, how about you read the bill of rights.  \n\n"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."\n\nso "sneek and peek" wouldn't exactly be constitutional.
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If contraband was found during a search....you or the person who was in the home or vehicle should have been charged and arrested then....\n\nWhat was the reason for the search? Was a search warrant issued at the time by a judge? Did the police tell you that they had found what they were looking for in your immediate area?\n\nThis story sounds a little iffy....Give more input and maybe I can give you an opion....\n\nTechnically...if you were not arrested at the time of the search..you can go wherever you want.....you were not arrested at the time....and the police did not tell you not to leave town....
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a cop can search you for reasonable suspicion. in the us i know its legit. not sure about canada.
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I'm surprised that you've been bothered as many times as you have...I would expect that the coppers down there would have figured out what the ex's game is all about by now.\n\nYou've got a bunch of questions here, really.\n\nDo the police have the right to come every time he calls?  \n\nSure.  And they can come when he doesn't call, and they can come when the sun comes up and when the sun goes down.  It's what happens when they get there that is really the issue.\n\nIs it legal for them to wake you up? \n\nAlways legal to wake you up...always.  Can't imagine a law that says it would be illegal to wake people up.  \n\nAnd search the house?\n\nWhole different story here.  What do you mean by "search?"  Are they looking in cabinets and drawers, closets and bedrooms, pill bottles and cigarette cases?  Are they doing it against your will, or are you kindly allowing this to happen?  \n\nDepending on the circumstances, it *may* be appropriate for the police to enter your home against your wishes and conduct some kind of search.  I would expeect the search to be very limited....VERY limited...but it's conceivable to me, depending on what the ex has told them, that they may feel they have cause to enter and search.  Boy...the more I think about it...I really need to know what you're talking about when you say search.\n\nDetails and suggestions?\n\nYou betcha.  \n\nFirst of all, the things I said above would apply the first, or maybe the second, time the police show up at your door.  After that, it seems to me they really should be getting the idea that the ex is out to tweak you.  \n\nIf you think they've exceeded what you think is reasonable, then call the agency and ask to speak with the Watch Commander.  Explain your situation, and ask him/her what you can do to stop these frequent, harassing checks.  You may or may not be happy with the response; if someone calls up with halfway believable information about a child in potential jeopardy, we take it seriously.  So do the courts, and that's why we have a little more latitude than usual when it comes to making a welfare check on children.\n\nYou may end up back in court, dealing with the restraining order.  If you can substantiate that your ex is harassing you, that he cannot possibly know the things he's saying are happening, are really happening (in other words, if he says the baby's room is filled with dirty diapers, and he isn't allowed in the house and knows no one that tells him that), then you *may* be able to have the court order him to stop reporting this information to the police.\n\nYou are right to feel the way you do.  Like I said, if it's as bad as you make it out to be, I'm surprised the cops haven't given up on it yet.  There's probably more we could talk about, but these are the answers to what you asked so far.\n\nAnd do us both a favor: don't print this out and take it to the cops, telling them, "Look, this cop says you should stop coming to my house."  I didn't say that, and the cops you talk to there will have no way of knowing or caring if I really am a cop or not.  They also know more about this situation than I do, and I would trust them to make the right decision with whatever information they have.\n\nGood luck.
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In the UK, the police do not need a warrant to arrest you for any criminal offense if they have reasonable grounds  for believing you committed it or may be about to do so. The time of night and where the arrest takes place are totally immaterial as far as the law is concerned.\n\nThe police may need a search warrant to search your property, but this does not affect their right to arrest you.
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I don't think they need a warrant for the simple fact you are not at home or in your car. You are wanting to board a commercial airliner to travel somewhere, sometimes with a whole lot of other people. See I don't know if you know this, but commercial airliners have this problem of blowing up or in some cases crashing into buildings if the wrong people or things get on board. \n\nCarry on and checked bags are subject to being searched, especially when airline security cannot determine by X-ray the contents of a package. Leave your gifts unwrapped until after you get to where you are going. Airline security will open it if X-rays can't identify whats inside. \n\nIf you want to fly be prepared for yourself and your bags to be searched ... what are you trying to hide anyway? I don't have a problem having my bags searched, I'm paying for the ride, I look at it this way, they have the right. If it keeps someone (or a group) from boarding the flight that has intentions of ending my life and those of everyone else prematurely so be it.
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Your friend still has rights, but generally one of the terms that your friend may have agreed to as part of the agreement for probabtion is that the police can search without cause any time they want as often as they want. Your friend would be subject to the same type of "harrassment," as you put it, if he/she were in jail or prison. The purpose being that, while you friend is not in jail or prison, you friend needs to obey the law at all times to avoid being sent to jail or prison.
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Well it's different for each state.If your in a hunting area or have a killed game such as a deer. they don't need your consent to search or have hunting style firearms. Such as a rifle. They have more arrest/search powers then a beat cop.
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The officers cannot conduct a search without a warrant or without probable cause, unless there are specific special circumstances.\n\nGenerally, the police can pull you over for any suspicion.  Expired tags, no front plates, broken taillight, etc.  If they then "smell" something suspicious (i.e., pot or alcohol), they can then search your car under suspicion of possession or DUI.  If they place you under arrest, they can basically search every inch of your car.\n\nIf they ask if they can search your car YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY NO!!!!!  If you consent to a search, they have the ability to search your entire car.\n\nIf they simply give you a ticket and search your car without consent, they have violated your rights.  If they find any evidence in your car, it cannot be used against you in court.  If they found nothing or no charges were placed against you, you should still make a complait to the police department they were from. It will go in their file and it may help someone else (or you) defend themself in the future.
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Any search or seizure of an automobile must be "reasonable" under the 4th Amendment.  Reasonableness is determined by the particular circumstances of the situation.  With automobiles, a court will consider the totality of the circumstances that gave rise to the officer's decision to search your car.  There will never be a simple answer to this question.  If you are just speeding, then it is extremely unlikely that any evidence acquired from a non-consentual search of your vehicle may be used against you in court.  However, if you are acting nervous, sweating, stuttering, smell like alcohol, etc., then the determination of whether the search was reasonable under the circumstances will be made by the judge.  Also, the search must be reasonable prior to the officer's decision to conduct the search.  So, if he opens the trunk without your permission and finds a weapon, he cannot legally expand his search to other areas of the car.  He may try, but any evidence acquired will not be admissable against you in court (including evidence found in the trunk).  So, if you are stopped and an officer asks to search your vehicle, you have the right to refuse the search.  However, a drug sniffing dog may be used to smell for drugs (or bombs, etc.).  Further, an officer may look into the vehicle from the outside for any items which suggest illegal activity.  If a visual inspection or a drug dog reveals the possibility of illegal activity, the officer may have a reasonable basis for conducting a search despite your refusal.\n\nUltimately, you do not have to consent to any search of an automobile.  However, a police officer may search your vehicle despite your refusal.  If the search was legitimately based on reasonable suspicions of illegal activity, then anything produced from the search may be admitted against you as evidence in court.
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Even when I was 16, I KNEW THE RULES!!! \n\nLockers are the FIRST PLACE when anyone wants to find ANYTHING that you have or carry. \n\nSECOND PLACE is your backpack, bookbag, purse.\n\nTHIRD PLACE is YOU!\n\nThink about it....if you think it is wrong for Locker Searches, then more or less you have something to hide.
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In Ireland they changed the law after Veronica Guerin was shot, now if you have loads of stuff, cars/houses n the like and you cant prove how you came by the money to buy these things then the police can not only take the house but also everything in it down to the clothes of your back. As far as I know the same thing happens in England. Hope that helps
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You need to go back, and if they are still there, you should stay in the stall, and call the police. You need to stay in the stall, so security doesn't have a chance to take it out before the police come. Then, you sue the department store.
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I used to get pulled over all the time. I couldn't walk a mile without getting searched when I was young. I grew up poor, grew my hair long. So the cops assumed that was enough of a reason. Or I'd be in  a high crime neighborhood. Didn't matter that I LIVED there. Just that they stopped folks in that neighborhood. Also been in roadblocks where my car got extra special searching just for looking poor.
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It would have been nice if you'd explained whether you were talking about a search warrant or not.  I'll assume you're talking about a search warrant because of the way your question is phrased.\n\nSearch warrants are not normally issued in someone's name.  In other words, if the police were going to come search my house, the warrant would be issued to search my specific address...123 Easy Street, for example.  It would NOT say to go search mikeysco's house, because that's not particularly describing a location to be searched, and that's what required for a search warrant.\n\nEven if the search warrant was authorized because I am a dope dealer, and my name was all through the warrant, it wouldn't make any difference if my name was correct or not as long as the police showed the judge that a person was in a particular house selling dope.  It's entirely possible there would be no name whatsoever on a search warrant as in the case of searching an open field belonging to an unknown person, a warehouse containing stolen property, a vehicle held as evidence (though often those are lawfully searched without a warrant) or other circumstances. \n\nSearch warrants are not normally issued in someone's name unless the police want to search that particular person (i.e., physically search them or obtain DNA or blood samples, for instance).  They are issued to search a location, and that location must be described with some particularity...but there is no requirement that a person's name be associated with the location to be searched or, even if there is a name, that it be a correct name.\n\nPerhaps you are asking about news reports where the police have mistakenly entered the wrong location pursuant to a search warrant.  In some cases, the addresses are incorrect.  In other cases, Joe Dealer, who is thought to live at 123 East Street, actually ends up living at 125 Easy Street but the cops don't know it and go to 123 instead.  And in other cases, the cops just plain screw up and don't pay attention to which door they're crashing through.