Oh indeed, it's not straightforward, but Gordon's long monologue about how it's something "only the Police are authorised to do" is sort of derailed when you realise early on that, well, no it's really not.
It's a bit like listening to the hymn Jerusalem and realising that, unless one accepts an obscure Apocryphal story about Joseph of Arimathea being Jesus uncle, it's one of the few hymns which asks a lot of questions, the answer to all of which is pretty much categorically "No", even to devout Christians. :)