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Story: ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically'

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.. but in a few % of cases

PC P: Just put your finger on the scanner here seeing as you 'aint got any ID and I'll just make a quick check to confirm that you are who you say you are. Ok?

Smiff: Can I call my lawyer first?

PC P: It's only routine Mr Smiff. Only routine. No need for concern.

[version 2]

Smiff puts finger on scanner. They both watch as the screen turns bright red and starts making claxon noises. The face on the screen doesn't look much like Smiff's as it has a huge beard, but there's a passing resemblance. PC P has no choice but to arrest Smiff under the Terrorism act. 42 days later, a much thinner and more ragged looking Smiff is to be seen walking down the steps of the "Human Information Retrieval Centre". He doesn't really seem that mollified to learn that seeing as the scanners only use a few points of comparison, there is a whole percentage chance of a mismatch.

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PC P: Just put your finger on the scanner here seeing as you 'aint got any ID and I'll just make a quick check to confirm that you are who you say you are. Ok?

Smiff: Can I call my lawyer first?

PC P: It's only routine Mr Smiff. Only routine. No need for concern.

[version 3]

Smiff puts finger on scanner. They both watch as the little box makes a disappointed bink-bonk noise signifying that this person is a non-person. Probably an illegal immigrant, maybe even a terrorist!! PC P immediately jumps on him before he can run off. 42 days later, nobody has any clue where Smiff has gone. He was off to the flicks and never came back. He never even found out that that round of citrous cocktails he made for his mates at lunch were his undoing. They apparently removed sufficient ridge detail to prevent the handheld scanner from recognising his dabs. Sadly the device at the cop shop faired no better. Shame they went with the lowest bid really. The coppers briefly wonder why they get to lock up so many builders and cocktail waiters.

Big shame for Smiff and the brickies too of course, but then if it stops just one kiddy fiddler, terrorist or drug smuggler .....

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