On 11 Sep, 19:56, "tim....." wrote:
"Jim Gemineye" wrote:

On 11 Sep, 12:40, "tim....." wrote:
"Jim Gemineye" wrote in message

Article in Mail about a bus driver who stopped outside a police
station to report two passengers smoking crack cocaine on the bus -
police didn't have anyone available, told to ring 999!
Full story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...s.html?in_arti...

Still, there is always the CCTV - they can catch them later...

Perhaps not, East London Bus Group refused to release CCTV of the men
smoking on board, citing data protection laws.

It wouldn't be evidence of this crime anyway they
could claim that they were smoking something
else and there is (now) no proof otherwise.

tim

Apart from a bus full of witnesses, no

Who are all fully in trained in knowing what crack
is?

They can get them for smoking on the bus sure,
but there is no allowable evidence that what they
were smoking is also illegal.

tim


I don't know what the legal situation is... however I'm in no doubt
that at least some of the other passengers and the driver knew it was
crack (and if not that knew it was an illegal drug). It's not hard to
spot - a basic crack pipe is a glass pipe with a bowl at one end, and
when burnt (i.e. smoked) it has a distinctive musty smell, although
it's subtle unlike weed.

Anyway I doubt that the police will be chasing these guys from having
viewed the CCTV images of them. The images might conceivably be kept
on file for intelligence purposes, perhaps this is more likely if the
coppers know who they are or at least know their faces.