Documents and police corruption
Just wondering how this works in more detail. When pulled over by police, the rule seems to be immediately play dumb, smile and wait it out. People have mentioned never handing over real paperwork, only copies. And that the only time you should hand over real paperwork is at borders because you HAVE to.
Is it illegal to refuse to hand over your real documents to cops? If a cop asks to see a foreigner's passport or driving licence, etc and the foreigner hands the cops a crumpled sheet of A4 paper instead?
Does all this stuff only apply to countries considered 2nd/3rd world? If you were pulled over in Italy or something (1st world country), do you still play dumb and give them copies?
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