Originally Posted by kpeter20
Mouse, would you mind expanding on how the warning took place?
Sorry if I have missed it but was it a case of the officer taking the knife from you in the street and giving you a verbal warning along the lines of don't do it again or did you accept and sign something more official.
Ok here we go
Walking quite normally when a marked police car passed me I noticed the driver taking notice of me I continued to walk on my way , several minutes later the car stops In front of me and the officer gets out and asks quite politely where I was going , I replied ,he then asks what I had in my pack at which point I answered quite openly my kit for bushcrafting ,he asked if he could look , at this point I was NOT aware that this was to be a search and was shocked when he asked me to sit in the car whilst he looked , I asked why and upon me doing this he used his radio ( I was not aware for what until later ) he told me that it was needed whilst he took a look in my pack so I basically done as I was told ,whilst in the car another car arrived with other officers ( the radio call ) when they spoke they agreed that my knife , axe and spoon knife were of concern told me that I was not to be arrested but the kit was to be taken by them to the station and I could go to the station if I disagreed and someone more senior would take a look , I was given a receipt and told I was guilty of breaking a law and it would be recorded on my file and if I was found in the same situation again I would be arrested and charged
This is in short what happened at the road side