Sorry Wammers, afraid you are wrong on this one.
No Police stops are random. Even if it appears that you are driving correctly, vehicle looks all in order, the Police can still stop you and they have many reasons why they can do this.
you sir are full of ****e. A police officer has to have reasonable grounds to believe that you have committed an offence before they can stop you.
For a start they have powers to stop and demand your date of birth, the list goes on, inspect your driving licence ect. Did you know that technically, it is an offence to drive on the road and not have your driving licence with you.
again ****e there is no legal duty to carry any id or vehicle documents with you at any time of the day or night.
Alot of people do drive without their licence with them, the law understands this hence the seven day wonder, however you have still committed a moving traffic offence and therefore the Police have the power to demand a breath test.
even more ****e Perhaps instead of spouting this ****e you could point us towards the section of the road traffic act your referring to.
As for the Christmas Campaigns, yes the Police do these checks every year but they still hace to comply with the law and in most cases people will get breathalysed. But, in the odd case senerio, where you are not doing anything wrong, you have all the documents with you, you are the registered keeper, your vehicle is in order then the Police have to form the SUSPICION THAT YOU ARE DRIVING A VEHICLE ON THE ROAD WHILST UNDER THE INFUENCE OF ALCOHOL before they breath test you.
You really have missed the point here haven't you. The point been that random breath tests ARE Illegal and so the police make up excuses so that they can carry out random breath tests.
Edit for clarification the law states..
(6)If a person required under the preceding provisions of this section to produce a licence and its counterpart or state his date of birth or to produce his certificate of completion of a training course for motor cyclists. . . fails to do so he is, subject to subsections (7) to (8A) below, guilty of an offence.
(7)Subsection (6) above does not apply where a person required on any occasion under the preceding provisions of this section to produce a licence and its counterpart—
(a)produces on that occasion a current receipt for the licence and its counterpart issued under section 56 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 and, if required to do so, produces the licence and its counterpart in person immediately on their return at a police station that was specified on that occasion, or
(b)within seven days after that occasion produces such a receipt in person at a police station that was specified by him on that occasion and, if required to do so, produces the licence and its counterpart in person immediately on their return at that police station.
(8)In proceedings against any person for the offence of failing to produce a licence and its counterpart it shall be a defence for him to show that—
(a)within seven days after the production of his licence and its counterpart was required he produced them in person at a police station that was specified by him at the time their production was required, or
(b)he produced them in person there as soon as was reasonably practicable, or
(c)it was not reasonably practicable for him to produce them there before the day on which the proceedings were commenced,
and for the purposes of this subsection the laying of the information or, in Scotland, the service of the complaint on the accused shall be treated as the commencement of the proceedings.