Police Definitions

• 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 may be given in evidence.
• Is a citizen locally appointed, whose authority is derived from the crown. Their prime functions are: the protection of life and property, the maintenance of order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the prosecution of offenders against the peace.
• Arrest

  It is believed the arrest is necessary: to enable the name of the person in question to be ascertained (in the case where the constable does not know, and cannot readily ascertain, the persons name or has reasonable grounds for doubting whether a name given by the person as his name is his real name);
• Correspondingly as regards the persons address to prevent the person in question causing physical injury to himself or any other person; suffering physical injury; causing loss of or damage to property; committing an offence against public decency (subject to subsection (6)); or causing an unlawful obstruction of the highway;
• To protect a child or other vulnerable person from the person in question; to allow the prompt and effective investigation of the offence or of the conduct of the person in question; to prevent any prosecution for the offence from being hindered by the disappearance of the person in question.