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Q You hadn’t searched the van------
A I was basing — I was basing------

Q ------but you were telling them there was a load of tools in there?
A The conversation I will have had with the insurance company - obviously we’ve got
the recording --------

Q Mm.

A ------will have been based on my interaction at the scene and from my notes and
my recollection it was based on that front of the cab, that front area where obviously the
driver and passenger were.

Q But what tools were in the front of the van then?
A So - so what I -1 would suggest is that the loose items I refer to in my notes - perhaps
some of those items were tools but I — I don’t recall.

Q Have you got your handwritten notes or the typed-up statement?
A I’ve got my -------

Q It doesn’t really matter.
A I’ve got my typed statement. I don’t know if.....

MR KENNEDY: Is it the same as the notebook?

THE RECORDER: I’d like to see a copy. Have you got your actual notebook,
officer? Have you got your actual notebook?
A Not from the time, no.

MR KENNEDY: The statement was.......

THE RECORDER: Mr Kennedy, do you have a copy of the actual notebook?

MR KENNEDY: No, I don’t. Was--was there actually a notebook or is it...........
A I believe it will have been original notes on the fixed penalty notice if — if that’s
what’s being referred to.

MR KENNEDY: Right.

THE RECORDER: I’m slightly confused because at the outset of this officer’s
evidence it was put to him that he’d made notes and now it seems that we’re not
talking about notes, we’re talking about a statement or a proforma.

MR KENNEDY: Were — were your notes actually in a statement format?
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