sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about pilots BJCC.
If the screeners THINK they smell alchohol (which is all they did in this case - remember they didn't actually smell alchohol, they were WRONG), then they should either say something there and then, or shut the **** up, not act like pathetic little bully boys and make the call later. Its the stereotypical behaviour of a pathetic looser bully pretending to be the 'big man', who hasn't got the balls to say anything to anyones face, but uses their percieved authority to pretend that they are important.
Mind you, hardly surprising that an ex-plod can defend that attitude, as it describes a reasonable proportion of my local police force.
and guys, stop trying to find guilt where none exists. Theres no law against dieting, or being tired, or angry, or upset and flying a plane. Maybe there should be something about some of these, but there isn't, so stop the crusade.
Want to find alchohol and fatigue in the workplace thats responsible for thousands of deaths? then go visit your local hospital, but seeing as there hasn't been a single death from commercial aviation in the UK for years (even decades?) then wheres the beef?