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The road that leads to HMP Forest Bank is unassuming. On a dark November evening, intermittently lit up by passing headlights, it could be the entrance to any ordinary industrial estate.

But as you swing into the turning, you see it: four police vehicles and a mass of neon. A total of seven police officers are carrying out searches of every car that makes this turning.

You are waved into a nondescript bay on the left-hand side and ordered to vacate the vehicle, shortly before officers swoop and search it top to bottom, checking everything from the glove compartment to the tyre tread.

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Bags are pulled out from the boot, each one then rifled through. Every occupant of the car is personally searched, with registration pla

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