Back in the seventies they used to set up 'check points'. I was probably stopped thirty or so times. I remember one time I was stopped. I had decided shortly before that not to dress that day when I went to do some shopping in another city. All checkpoints were operated only during the day (or so it was believed). During that era I would have been taken into custody had I been dressed and my wife would have been called. I felt great relief when I left the checkpoint area.