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Everytime I go racing my handbag is checked. It's not that big and there's never much in it. However, men with huge overcoats on are not asked to empty their pockets, open their coats to show they are not wearing an explosive vest. On one occasion as I was stopped, a jockey with a large bag slung over his shoulder was waved through. When I asked if they were going to search his bag, the woman said he's a jockey. 'What's his name?' ' No idea'. 'How do you know he's a jockey then?' Well he's carrying a bag with a whip sticking out of it' Oh well yes that makes him a jockey then doesn't it? There are no sniffer dogs at the entrances. They go round the restaurants on Royal visits but otherwise not seen. If that's a general attitude how can you stop all of them all of the time? You can't and you will never be able to. The police and security forces don't have the resources. Makes me really cross when they are attacked because in this case , they knew of him , but didn't have him under 24/7 surveillance. How can they? He had been to Turkey, Germany and Libya in the weeks leading up to Monday, how on earth do they expect anyone to track him when really all he had done to that point is have nasty thoughts?

<blockquote data-quote="G-G" data-source="post: 2575914" data-attributes="member: 65472"><p>Everytime&nbsp; I go racing my handbag is checked. It&#039;s not that big and there&#039;s never much in it. However, men with huge overcoats on are not asked to empty their pockets, open their coats to show they are not wearing an explosive vest.&nbsp; On one occasion as I was stopped, a jockey with a large bag slung over his shoulder was waved through. When I asked if they were going to search his bag, the woman said he&#039;s a jockey. &#039;What&#039;s his name?&#039; &#039; No idea&#039;. &#039;How do you know he&#039;s a jockey then?&#039; Well he&#039;s carrying a bag with a whip sticking out of it&#039; Oh well yes that makes him a jockey then doesn&#039;t it?&nbsp; There are no sniffer dogs at the entrances. They go round the restaurants on Royal&nbsp; visits but otherwise not seen.&nbsp; If that&#039;s a general attitude how can you stop all of them all of the time? You can&#039;t and you will never be able to. The police and security forces don&#039;t have the resources. Makes me really cross when they are attacked because in this case , they knew of him , but didn&#039;t have him under 24/7 surveillance. How can they? He had been to Turkey, Germany and Libya in the weeks leading up to Monday, how on earth do they expect anyone to track him when really all he had done to that point is have nasty thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="G-G, post: 2575914, member: 65472"] Everytime I go racing my handbag is checked. It's not that big and there's never much in it. However, men with huge overcoats on are not asked to empty their pockets, open their coats to show they are not wearing an explosive vest. On one occasion as I was stopped, a jockey with a large bag slung over his shoulder was waved through. When I asked if they were going to search his bag, the woman said he's a jockey. 'What's his name?' ' No idea'. 'How do you know he's a jockey then?' Well he's carrying a bag with a whip sticking out of it' Oh well yes that makes him a jockey then doesn't it? There are no sniffer dogs at the entrances. They go round the restaurants on Royal visits but otherwise not seen. If that's a general attitude how can you stop all of them all of the time? You can't and you will never be able to. The police and security forces don't have the resources. Makes me really cross when they are attacked because in this case , they knew of him , but didn't have him under 24/7 surveillance. How can they? He had been to Turkey, Germany and Libya in the weeks leading up to Monday, how on earth do they expect anyone to track him when really all he had done to that point is have nasty thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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