Well it is alleged that I was interfering with a hunt, I was held for 6 hours and bailed, it will come to nothing.

My reason for posting is that I have not been arrested for a few years and a couple of things have changed.

First a police woman breached PACE by trying to check me for body piercings at the custody desk where there were 4 men by lifting up my t shirt(for anyone who is interested no I don't have any and have no intention of getting any). I told her in no uncertain terms that she was out of order and that she should search me somewhere private and she complied and I would advise other activists not to take this nonsense. If I am right this constituted a partial unauthorised strip search.

The other area of concern is that some Reliance bloke was under the impression that I was obliged to answer private questions about shoe size, tatoos, scars, the name of my Mums cat, my favourite colour etc. When I stuck to my guns and told him that I was only giving him name and address he was in a proper strop and was under the false impression that I could be held for longer. No-one he said had ever refused to answer such questions before and that activists were always a pain. Again no-one should be answering these questions if they do not want to, there is no legal right for them to insist.

It seems as though the private security companies are getting more and more entrenched in custody suites which in spite of the fact that I have no illusions with the police appears to be a very bad move because some of these people have even bigger delusions of granduer than police officers.