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Not clear whether the driver or passenger was involved here, but the way the tail and stop is described it's like the driver and vehicle aroused the suspicion rather than the passenger (assuming there even was a passenger).

And it sounds like one of these operations that's specifically targetted this vehicle, for whatever reason, but it's made to look like a more random stop caused by suspicious activity there and then


Knife and drugs found after taxi stopped in Nottingham

https://news.nottinghamshire.police.uk/ ... rch-459215


Image: West Bridgford Wire

Police out on patrol uncovered a knife and suspected crack cocaine during a car stop.

A taxi aroused the suspicions of officers after being spotted at around 1.30pm on Friday (16 December).

The city knife crime team were scouring the Radford area when they saw the taxi move off from where it was parked in Crewe Close.

Officers then tailed the vehicle to Forest Road East, where they pulled it over and carried out a search.

This led to a knife and suspected Class A drugs being discovered on one of the people inside the vehicle.

A 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a bladed article and possessing Class A drugs.

PC Ken Tinley, of Nottinghamshire Police’s city knife crime team, said: “Carrying out proactive stop and searches like the one used in this case are a key part of what we do as a team.

“In addition to obviously targeting possible knife-carriers, our aim is to also disrupt and detain people involved in drug activity and other forms of criminality.

“We don’t want to see any knives or drugs on our streets, which is why we carry out regular patrols to help root out offenders from our communities.

“While we’ve arrested a suspect, our inquiries are still very much ongoing, so we’d ask anyone who has any information that could assist us to contact 101, quoting incident 22000734532.”

"One of the people inside the vehicle" is very vague, obviously, and to that extent, might or might not be the driver. On the other hand, the phrase implies there was more than one person in the vehicle, thus at least one passenger.

And given the tender age of the man arrested (at least compared with the average driver), I'd guess it was a passenger who was arrested.

So maybe confirming that the taxi raising suspicion is a red herring, and the passengers were actually targetted

maybe the police were "stalking" the arrestee and worded it to make it sound like they weren't perhaps because there are associates also being targeted.

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