2007-01-31 14:20:05 · 11 answers · asked by hammodt 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Drugs was just an example, I wasn't looking for answers specifically relating to drugs. Particularly interested in the UK legal side of things...! Cheers! David
2007-01-31 14:36:18 · update #1
Of course it isn't legal. Even DEA agents have to be careful when working undercover so they don't make any mistakes and let a dealer walk free. Journalists cannot legally buy drugs in order to get a story. then again, if they are good, they don't need to. They will have good sources, a good camera, and be able to catch a dealer at work.
2007-01-31 14:34:22 · answer #1 · answered by David L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO fairly not. they're freed from criminal accountability and could't be cost of committing against the regulation in the event that they connect a smuggling ring or a drug lord for the achievement of their challenge and understand or arrest the grasp strategies of the group. they're merely observed as MOLE or SLEEPERS interior a properly prepared crime ring or syndicate. it fairly is the reason they create their job in the syndicate like all of us else. yet while it includes killing yet another gang they have not have been given the different selection yet to devise the killing and stop it and arrest the group chief so as that no killing will ensue. partaking in basic terms on given education from the precise is what they're awaiting for, like your occasion of looking an underground tunnel or cave between the U. S. and Mexico? Is there considered one of those tunnel exist? I doubt it. yet for the reason that to procure an resourceful strategies, you are going to be in Hollywood video clips for this. needless to say if the undercover cop found out the tunnel exist he have been given no different selection yet to tell his findings to the final HQ and supply the education to intercept the shipment or the shipment in the past it land the two in Mexico or in the heartland of the U. S.. properly generally the undercover cop gets killed in this way of set up. it fairly is the reason undercover law enforcement officials are properly adorned law enforcement officials in the police rigidity why you are able to ask, they threat their lives or supply their lives for their challenge.
2016-10-16 09:37:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes and no, there are better ways to get stories but again no , most people can relate to having to do cheap stuff to get a job done ....so it depends how you look at the whole ideal , my awesner no , its not cheap ,,,, <3
2007-01-31 14:25:04 · answer #3 · answered by October.C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he can be jailed for illegal possession. If this were true, think of how many people would claim to be doing undercover journalistic investigation, when apprehended.
2007-01-31 14:23:38 · answer #4 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buying the drugs isn't the illegal part. Possessing the drugs after you buy them is.
2007-01-31 14:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by Peter Pumpkin Eater 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya honest officer I was just buying it for the story, and the bank I robbed was for another story.
2007-01-31 14:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You not for his personal consumption, just how could a reasonable person accept that?
2007-01-31 14:24:23 · answer #7 · answered by Sgt 524 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes is it is. its called entrapment
i.e if an unmarked police car revs its engine encouraging you to race and you do they cannot do you for it as this is entrapment.
2007-01-31 14:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by colin050659 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if they run out of Kryptonite.
2007-01-31 14:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-01-31 14:23:31 · answer #10 · answered by glamour04111 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋