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well i will recount my experience, though mine is only light and obviously not an issue enough for me to get out of the car and file a report with another officer, to later be reviewed by the complaint comissioner. how ever, i have talked to family and friends with first hand experiance where the conversation between the officer and the individual seemed to cross the bounds of the officers legal wrights. i will not introduce those conversations, as they are hearsay and i did not whitness them.
my experience: i was stopped at grainville and 4th for an alcohol block. the officer asked "have you been drinking tonight", i answered politly no. "can i see your license?", i gave it to him. "is your N displayed", i answerd yes. he checked. he then handed my license back.
at this point though the officer was coming across as being a bit of a prick, and as i am to near everyone was being polite, i did not see anything wrong in the actions that had just transpired, though irritating they were.
i then asked "may i go now?", which is absolutley the wright of any individual to ask an officer. the officer is then obliged to say either yes, or no and state his/her reasoning. apon the officers answer, after the issue has been clarified the individual may ask again.
the officer looked at me like wow ow wow buddy, i ask the questions (he did not say such). then said in an overly authoritarian voice "i didn't say that, stay here". i could tell that asking why i was being held further would only make the situation worse. the officer just stood there and looked at me for a few moments. then he walked over to another officer, after a few moments the officer came back and said "alright leave" again in a very irritated way.
^the above situation is as i said the least intense that i have personaly heard or experienced. how ever, after determining i was legaly driving, i was not drunk, and the visual observation of the vehicle did not result in probable cause to hold the individual (me) or to search the vehicle, at this point to hold an individual further just because the officer wants to feel that he is in control is bullying=intimidation=verbal harasment=ilegal, is it not?
on the majority the officers i know in person and those i've met through other means are polite. but...
is there a law in place in BC that basically allows some officers to flex their police ego or are they subject to workplace harasment law as i was under the impresion all residents of BC where?
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