Can cops pull you over.......?

[Ixion]

Not as I read that. There must still be a valid reason to search, under a statutory power. All that section does is allow the cops to stop the vehicle in order to exercise an existing statutory power to search without a warrant, if they have reasonable grounds to believe that eg the Arms Act or Misuse of Drugs Act provisions apply.

Any member of the Police may stop a vehicle for the purpose of conducting a search under a statutory search power if the member of the Police is satisfied that,—

(a)In respect of a statutory search power to search without a warrant, the ground or grounds, as the case may be, for exercising that statutory search power, as set out in the applicable statute, exist; or
(b)In respect of a statutory search power to search with a warrant, the warrant has been issued and is in force.

4)Every member of the Police exercising the stopping power conferred by subsection (1) must, immediately after the vehicle has stopped,—

...
(c)Tell the driver the statutory search power in respect of which the stopping power is being exercised; and

Highlights mine.

[marty]

I couldn't be bothered cutting and pasting. I thought it obvious that the search without warrant could only be invoked if a statutory power existed.

[homer]

Can cops pull you over for suspecting that you could be a Lerner rider?

i was riding on the mway doing 85kmh during traffic and a cop pulls out from behind me and pulls me over.
he tells me that normally people that ride the bike i was riding (gsx250) are Lerners???? he asked for my licence. so i proudly flip out my ristricted and shut him doen.

but can they do such a thing???

UUUUmMmmMm

its a cop what do you think they cant stop you for

[ElCoyote]

The police just can't go on a fishing expedition. It gets worse...The city council here were doing some sort of survey on Johns Road a couple of months ago. Signaling drivers to pull over then detaining them to fill in some damn form. People at work were bitching about having to wait in a queue. How pathetic. As a citizen you have rights and one of those rights is to go about your lawful business without being harassed, which is what happened to the young poster of this thread. We are a nation of sheep and it's getting worse. In the USA they don't put up with that crap. They defend their freedoms, but we couldn't care less, let along give the issue any thought until it impacts on us personally.

All I can say is if you baaaaaa you deserve all you get. How many lives has Maurice Williamson's photo licence (Nazi id tattoo) saved. As of last year the answer is minus 30.

The gutless, apathetic New Zealand public allowed Williamson to pull the second biggest con in the history of this country.

The biggest con being the Erebus enquiry but that's another story again.

Laws were put in place because boy racers were a problem, and so were drunk drivers, and those persons were deprived of their transport. Did that reduce the road toll? it increased.

>50 Boy racers off the road each week-end and we continue to kill and maim people on a larger scale. Do the Cop's have it right. Hell NO.

Place a red light camera on each intersection and double demerit points for that offence. That would reduce deaths significantly (especially bikers) providing there was a corresponding follow up on unlicensed drivers.

Speed, per se, is not a significant contributor to accidents. LACK OF BASIC SKILLS is. Go figure.

Regarding the oft mentioned "alcohol played a factor" phrase, a certain ethnic group has the propensity to fall asleep in the middle of a buffalo stampede. When this happens at xx:00am after a party the excuse is alcohol related. Not he would go to sleep standing up and SOBER.

I am getting slightly off subject, so to regroup: We are entitled to go about our lawful business and travel unpeded on the Queens highway until an offence has been committed.

Focus on the cause not the result.

[scumdog]

> to kill and maim people on a larger scale. Do the Cop's have it right. Hell NO..

EASY!
How about saying that again but using 'politicians and lawmakers' instead of cops??