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Continuation of Statement of Steve
ELSMORE…………………………………………

Tick if witness evidence is visually recorded
(supply witness details on rear)

opened the car door to speak to the driver and he said,
"What the fuck do you want, you can't stop me". We
identified ourselves as Police Officers by displaying
my warrant card and he continued to say you have no
power to stop me what are your powers. It was
explained why we were there and why we had stopped
him. He remained aggressive saying that we did not
know how to do our job and that we had no powers to
search him. The other males in the van were telling the
male to calm down and let us get on with it. He was
still aggressive saying that he was all legit saying that
we had no reason to be there. He then turned off the
engine and jumped out the van and walked toward the
pavement. We explained he was detained for the
search and he continued to shout, "Don't you fucking
touch me, I can walk around". He continued to
question our grounds and I again explained them to
him. An elderly member of the public was walking
past, and he shouted at him "Oi mate the fucking
Police want to search you coz they think you may be a
burglar". The male turned around looked in disgust and
walked off again. CORDELL continued to walk
around by our vehicle, and it was again explained he
was detained for search as he was walking away from
him Police took hold of his right arm. As this
happened, he shouted "Don't fucking touch me". He
was continually aggressive. He was shouting "Get the
fuck off me" and members of the public were at their
windows trying to see what was going on. PC ASTON
was trying to take out his left arm while PC SCOTT
was trying to take out his right. He was shouting "Get
the fuck off me" continually and another unit arrived.
Handcuffs were applied in the rear stack position as he
was still being aggressive and uncooperative. As he
calmed down it was again explained why he was being
searched and he said, "you can't fucking touch me". He
was searched under section 1 of pace and nothing was