"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 21:19:47 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 16:53:44 on Tue, 8
Oct
2013, August West remarked:
they are not actually recorded in the images. Although I
imagine they cooperate with the police, who could obtain
warrants for the material, anyway.

Warrants under which statute?

It would be at Common Law in Scotland, not statute; I have
no idea about England (I suppose I should have qualifed my
statement). But I would be very surprised if there was no
such power.

The offences concerned are unlikely to justify a search warrant
of the perpetrator's home, let alone a search warrant for a bus
(assuming you could identify the exact bus) that happened to
be somewhere near where they might have committed the
offence.

As I suspect the original question might relate to a road traffic
accident, possibly involving a cyclist, then I could foresee
circumstances where a search of a garage connected to a home
and gathering of photographic / video evidence from vehicles,
CCTV cameras or individuals might be made. Whether that
would involve warrants I could not say - outside my knowledge.

My question was triggered by reading of some pedestrians using a
light-controlled pedestrian crossing. A bus had already stopped at
red. The road itself is only wide enough for one motor vehicle in
each direction. The pedestrians, crossing the road, walked out
of the cover of the bus without checking further and reportedly
just missed getting knocked down by a car that was overtaking
the bus, but were I believe unharmed.

Given the possible existence of video recordings of the incident, I
think the only question really is whether the police could or would
take any significant action if the incident was reported. The time it
occurred would be knowable. The people had just got off a train.
I don't know if they noted the bus route, but there wouldn't be more
than three possibilities.