Police Defs 2

• 1.  Stop and Search – S.1 PACE 1984

  A police constable may detain in order to search any person, vehicle or anything which is in or on a vehicle, in any place to which the public has access, if he or she has reasonable grounds for suspecting that stolen or prohibited articles, or bladed or sharply pointed articles or prohibited fireworks will be found.

  Any such article found during a search may be seized.
• 2.  Breach of the Peace – Common Law

  A Breach of the Peace is committed whenever harm is done, or is 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.
• 3. Possession of a Controlled Drug – S.5(2) MDA 1971

  It is an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in their possession without lawful authority.
• 4. S.136 Mental Health Act 1983

  If a person appears to a constable to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control, the constable may, if he thinks it necessary to do so in the interests of that person or for the protection of other persons—

  (a) remove the person to a place of safety within the meaning of section 135, or

  (b) if the person is already at a place of safety within the meaning of that section,

  keep the person at that place or remove the person to another place of safety.
• 5. Sudden Death

  A death where there was no expectation the person was likely to die and no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, for example natural causes or accident without third party culpability.
• 6. S.5 Public Order Act 1986

  A person is guilty of an offence if he—

  (a) uses threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or

  (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive,

  within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby.
• 7. Fraud by False Representation – S.2 Fraud Act 2006

  A person is in breach of this section if he;

  (a) dishonestly makes a false representation, and

  (b) intends, by making the representation;

  (i) to make a gain for himself or another, or

  (ii) to cause loss to another or to expose

       another to a risk of loss. 
• 8. Missing Person

  Anyone whose whereabouts cannot be established will be considered as missing until located and their well-being or otherwise confirmed.