Police

• The primary duties of police departments include enforcing laws, preventing and investigating crimes, and ensuring the safety of the community.
• Constable prime functions

  a)The protection of life and property

  b)The maintenance of order

  c)The prevention and detection of crime, and

  d)The prosecution of offenders against the peace.
• Police officers are responsible for maintaining law and order within their jurisdiction by enforcing criminal and traffic laws, responding to emergency calls, conducting patrols, and providing assistance during emergencies or disasters.
• Caution (arrest /interview)

  You do not have to say anything , but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court .Anything you do say bay be given in evidence.
• Caution(charged /reported)

  You do not have to say anything , but it may harm your defence if you do not mention now something you later rely on in court.Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
• The arrest is necessary to enable the name of the person to be ascertained when the constable does not know, and cannot readily ascertain the person's name or has reasonable grounds for doubting whether a name given by the person as his name is his real name.
• The arrest is necessary to ascertain the person's address.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent the person from causing physical injury to himself or any other person.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent the person from suffering physical injury.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent the person from causing loss or damage to property.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent the person from committing an offence against public decency.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent the person from causing an unlawful obstruction of the highway.
• The arrest is necessary to protect a child or other vulnerable person from the person in question.
• The arrest is necessary to allow the prompt and effective investigation of the offence or the conduct of the person in question.
• The arrest is necessary to prevent any prosecution for the offence from being hindered by the disappearance of the person in question.
• 5)Breach of the Peace

  A breach of the peace is committed whenever harm is done, or it’s likely to be done to a person, or in his presence to his property, or whenever a person is in fear of being harmed through an assault, affray, riot or other disturbance.
• 6) 5.32 PACE PERSON AND PREMISES SEARCH

  A Constable may search an arrested person, in any case where the person to be searched has been arrested at a place other than a police station.
• cont-, if the Constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the arrested person may present danger to himself and other.

  A Constable shall also have power in any such case to search the arrested person for anything which he might use to assist him to escape from lawful custody; or which might be evidence relating to an offence; and if the offence for which he has been arrested is an indictable offence, to enter and search any premises in which he was when arrested or immediately before he was arrested for evidence relating to the offence.
• 7)Entry for the purpose of arrest-S.17 PACE 1984

  A constable may enter and search any premises for the purpose of:

  -W- executing a warrant

  -A-Arrest for an indictable offence

  -S-Specified offences

  -P-Pursuit of a person unlawfully at large from detention.

  If there are reasonable grounds to believe the person is in the premises

  OR

  -S- Save life and limb and property from serious damage, if there are any reasonable grounds to suspect it is necessary.
• 8)Entry and search after arrest-S18(1)PACE 1984

  A constable may enter and search any premises occupied and controlled by a person who is under arrest for an indictable offence, if he had reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is on the premises evidence, other than items subject to legal privilege, that relates to that offence or to some other indictable offence which is connected with or similar to that offence.