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Originally Posted by madmax215
Since when has it been within the law for the police to gain entry to a probety without the owners consent, as far as I know they have to give the owner a search warrent or arrest him to search the house.
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If the house is empty and a warrant is obtained they won't wait until the occupier comes back home. The warrant empowers the Police to force entry.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
I do get a sense that these house searches are just a fishing expedition. If an allegation has been made that photos were taken and might still be there, that is one thing, but to search on the off chance there is evidence of other wrongdoing is quite another.
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There needs to be some evidence of criminality before a warrant is granted, there isn't just a stack of them sitting about waiting for a celebrity to move to the area so they can punt his door in.
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Originally Posted by Top banana
Don't know what's going on nowadays with our police. Why would they release this statement without him being arrested or charged.
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To stop rumours for a start. The press etc would know fine well a search was ongoing thanks to neighbours and twitter. A Police press release gets the facts straight before the Internet gossip squads can start.