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As an independent expert, Gary Poole once helped police search for transport records at a property in northern England. They raided the premises and sent staff to collect records.
They forced a mother, who was scheduled to collect her young child from school, to stay in the office. Laptops and other equipment were bagged and taken away.
The search took almost 24 hours and the case continues. Poole, who now works for TRL, was there to assist a team of detectives more used to interviewing murder suspects than trawling through transport records in an office. "It was a pretty awful experience," he recalls. "Operators think, 'I go to work in a suit and I don't get caught speeding. How can they treat me like that?' But they can."