You want to get you friend to to lodge a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Commission. If she is being stopped by her local constabulary then her car may have a marker on it that triggers the ANPR cameras. If she can't be bothered and there is a marker on her car then remember that there are a large number of dedicated fixed ANPR cameras and then ANPR network can also access some local authorities camera systems. Net result she can and is being tracked around the UK. Plus if she has been stopped under the prevention of Terrorism Act She needs to see what evidence the police have against her.

Thanks PP...will pass that on.                                                                                                                                                                                 

Unfortunately the Prevention of Terrorism Act gives the police the legal right to do pretty much anything they please and you do not have any automatic right of recourse or to be told why you are being hassled. The Police can withhold information on "security" grounds to "protect an ongoing investigation" or "sources of intelligence" It's interesting to note that the British police now have more legal power to detain without charges, break into your house, search you your posesions and your home without a court order than the former East German STASI had. It isn't just the police, your local council also has the power to tap your phone, intercept your mail and put you under surveillance under RIPA the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.  Of course being British they would never abuse the powers so there is no need to tighten the law is there? ............                                                                                                                                                                             

Does one detect just the merest soupçon of sarcasm in your post's closing sentence Prof?                                                                                                                                                                              

For prof and WB: Monday, August 10 2009 06:00 pm     New government research shows that public authorities access nearly 1,400 private phone calls and emails each day.   The figures were revealed in the annual report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and show that throughout 2008, public authorities made 504,073 requests to intercept the publics communications, an increase of 44 per cent since two years ago. This equates to the government snooping on the correspondence of one in every 78 adults. The Liberal Democrats, who made the report public, said the numbers show Britain has sleepwalked into a surveillance state. It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year, said Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary. The government forgets that George Orwells 1984 was a warning, and not a blueprint. We are still a long way from living under the Stasi but it beggars belief that is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults. The huge rate of phone tapping is all the more baffling when Britain is one of the few countries that will not allow intercept evidence in court, even in terrorist cases." Public sector bodies have access to confidential communications data under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was granted to help the government fight the threat of terrorism A Home Office spokesman said, These powers can make a real difference in delivering safer communities and protecting the public whether enabling us to gain vital intelligence that will prevent a terrorist attack, working to tackle anti-social behavior or ensuring that rogue traders do not defraud the public. He added that to ensure the effective use of RIPA, the Home Office has completed a public consultation on revised Codes of Practice detailing who should be allowed to access the data under RIPA and why.                                                                                                                                                                             

These powers can make a real difference in delivering safer communities and protecting the public

Phew! That's alright then

It'll be great when we have ID cards too. That'll make policing the bulldog bash a piece of cake. We'll just be able to wave our ID cards at the fella on the stop & search and he'll be able to tut at us and say "I say old bean! You're a ne'er do well! You can't come out to play with all the nice fluffy motorcycle enthusiasts. Get back to your house arrest this instant!"

Swift rap across the knuckles and everyone's happy
                                                                                                                                                                             

And if the Liberal Democrats ever get in power they'll be cutting down the snooping will they?                                                                                                                                                                             

And if the Liberal Democrats ever get in power they'll be cutting down the snooping will they? *

Agree there Ricdude,

It's alright for these bulls****ing politicians to criticise when they've got no real responsibility. It doesn't bother me if they listen to every fone call I make as i'm doin nowt wrong but it would make it a hell of a lot more difficult for those that are! How many people get shocked and surprised when these nutters get busted in the middle of our communities, it's because they're under surveillance and we don't know about it. They've got no interest in petty crime or naughty peeps just the nutters, flush em out that's what I say