Here is an interesting story that local UK newspapers should try here. Police Chief and the Mayor in Portland, Oregon, USA claim that it’s legal to search somebody’s garbage without a warrant, and criticise a judge who declares the activity unconstitutional.
So then the local newspaper raids the Mayor’s and the Police Chief’s garbage! Needless to say, the targets are none to happy.
http://unhappywiththepolice.blogspot.com/
So it’s not just the police in the UK that are rubbish!