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Ellesmere Street E14 where an informant had seen a
group of males load a flat screen TV into the rear of a
white Ford Transit panel van VRM CX52JRX. The
informant was a local resident and was particularly
concerned as her neighbour had been recently burgled.
The vehicle was in Ellesmere Street junction of Upper
North Street there could see there were 4 males sat in
the front cab. The person in the driving seat was a light
skinned IC3 male. Police parked behind the van and
PC ASTON got out of the car to get around to the van.
PC SCOTT

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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