. You've got to have more grounds than the way people look to search them."  Judge Gittos had said the police had no reason to suspect that Mr Fowlie and a friend were doing anything illegal when Mr Fowlie was arrested on Karangahape Rd in Auckland at 0.00am last June 00.  The two friends were saying goodbye after meeting for a coffee when they were approached by two members of a team policing unit.  Constable Karen Hoshek told the court on February 0 that the police were engaged in a "sweep" of Karangahape Rd to speak to people "to find out what they are doing".  She said that as she approached Mr Fowlie as a matter of routine she noticed a strong smell of cannabis.  Judge Gittos said the circumstances left an "uncomfortable perception" that the police were "engineering opportunities to conduct personal searches of persons minding their own business in a public street at random or on a purely speculative basis.  "It needs hardly be said that such conduct would manifestly contravene the provisions of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act."  Furthermore, the judge criticised the police for using the smell of cannabis as the sole grounds for searching Fowlie.  The charge against Fowlie, of possessing 0.0g of cannabis, barely enough for half a joint, was dismissed.  Mr O'Connor said he thought the police were justified searching Mr Fowlie.  "The reality of it is if smelling drugs doesn't give grounds for suspecting someone's got them, then it's hard to imagine what does. 