I wonder if they took these people’s DNA while they were at it?

Hundreds of police officers were on the streets of Nottingham throughout Saturday night in an effort to tackle knife crime in the city.

The major operation involved 200 officers as part of a Home Office project targeting 13 to 24-year-olds.

Officers and a specially-trained dog met young people coming off a number of bus routes. Metal detectors were used in an effort to find concealed weapons while drug testing was also carried out. A search centre was set up where a full body scanner checked suspects.

Drug dogs were also deployed on the streets and traffic officers used automated number plate recognition technology to identify vehicles wanted in connection with a crime, stolen vehicles and vehicles or motorists driving without insurance.

You know this is just giving cops in the US ideas, don’t you Britain? Of course here things like this are done to make money.

Although 92 percent of transit summonses result in some payment, they are a modest moneymaker: after expenses, the system netted about $5 million from tickets last year.